---
title: "Mexico vs Taiwan — area, population, currency"
description: "Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900 people; Taiwan is 35,980 km² with 23,600,776. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-taiwan/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Mexico vs Taiwan

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

1,964,375 km² vs 35,980 km² · 131,946,900 vs 23,600,776

Mexico is 55 times larger than Taiwan — 1,964,375 against 35,980 km². Mexico is 5.6 times more populous than Taiwan — 131,946,900 against 23,600,776 people.

## Side by side

|  | Mexico | Taiwan |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Mexico City | Taipei |
| Area | 1,964,375 km² | 35,980 km² |
| Population | 131,946,900 (2025) | 23,600,776 (2025) |
| Density | 67.2 /km² | 655.9 /km² |
| Currency | Mexican peso (MXN) | New Taiwan dollar (TWD) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Mandarin Chinese |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 | UTC+08:00 |
| Calling code | +52 | +886 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | Asia |
| ISO codes | MX / MEX | TW / TWN |

## Population density

Taiwan is 9.8 times more densely populated than Mexico — 656 against 67 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 New Taiwan dollar.
- Mexico spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — North America and Asia.

## 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.

## Taiwan

A mountainous island: 268 peaks rise above 3,000 m in an area smaller than Switzerland, and Yushan reaches 3,952 m. Taroko Gorge is cut about 19 km through marble. The island sits on the Ring of Fire and the Tropic of Cancer crosses it, so the south is tropical and the high interior gets snow.

> 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 Taiwan?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 35,980 km².

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

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 23,600,776.

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

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

## Related pages

- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [Taiwan](https://atoneplace.net/country/taiwan/)
- [India vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-mexico/)
- [India vs Taiwan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-taiwan/)
- [China vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-mexico/)
- [China vs Taiwan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-taiwan/)
- [Japan vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-mexico/)
- [Japan vs Taiwan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-taiwan/)
- [Canada vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Taiwan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-taiwan/)
- [Australia vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-mexico/)
- [Australia vs Taiwan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-taiwan/)
- [New Zealand vs Taiwan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/new-zealand-vs-taiwan/)
- [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]