Mexico vs Sweden

Mexico is 4.4 times larger than Sweden — 1,964,375 against 450,295 km². Mexico is 12 times more populous than Sweden — 131,946,900 against 10,596,620 people.

Side by side

Population density

Mexico is 2.9 times more densely populated than Sweden — 67 against 24 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

Practical differences

• Different currencies: the Mexican peso and the Swedish krona.
• Mexico spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — North America and Europe.

Mexico

Mexico has the fourth-highest count of vertebrate and plant species of any country, and more reptile species than anywhere else. Chicxulub, under the northern Yucatán, is the roughly 180 km crater left by the asteroid impact 66 million years ago. The Sistema Sac Actun beneath the same peninsula is the longest known underwater cave system in the world, over 370 km surveyed.

Sweden

Sweden has roughly 267,000 islands, more than any other country, though only a small fraction are inhabited. Around seventy percent of it is forest, and a seventh lies above the Arctic Circle. Its right of public access lets anyone walk and camp on most uncultivated land.

Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.