---
title: "Mexico vs Sweden — area, population, currency"
description: "Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900 people; Sweden is 450,295 km² with 10,596,620. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-sweden/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Mexico vs Sweden

**Mexico vs Sweden: Mexico is larger; Mexico has more people**

1,964,375 km² vs 450,295 km² · 131,946,900 vs 10,596,620

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

|  | Mexico | Sweden |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Mexico City | Stockholm |
| Area | 1,964,375 km² | 450,295 km² |
| Population | 131,946,900 (2025) | 10,596,620 (2025) |
| Density | 67.2 /km² | 23.5 /km² |
| Currency | Mexican peso (MXN) | Swedish krona (SEK) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Swedish |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 | UTC+01:00 |
| Calling code | +52 | +46 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | Europe |
| ISO codes | MX / MEX | SE / SWE |

## 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.

## Common questions

### Is Mexico bigger than Sweden?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 450,295 km².

### Which has more people, Mexico or Sweden?

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 10,596,620.

### What is the time difference between Mexico and Sweden?

Mexico is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 and Sweden is UTC+01:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [Sweden](https://atoneplace.net/country/sweden/)
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- [China vs Sweden](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-sweden/)
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- [Canada vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-mexico/)
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- [France vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/france-vs-mexico/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]