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title: "Mexico vs Ukraine — area, population, currency"
description: "Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900 people; Ukraine is 603,550 km² with 38,980,376. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-ukraine/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Mexico vs Ukraine

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

1,964,375 km² vs 603,550 km² · 131,946,900 vs 38,980,376

Mexico is 3.3 times larger than Ukraine — 1,964,375 against 603,550 km². Mexico is 3.4 times more populous than Ukraine — 131,946,900 against 38,980,376 people.

## Side by side

|  | Mexico | Ukraine |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Mexico City | Kyiv |
| Area | 1,964,375 km² | 603,550 km² |
| Population | 131,946,900 (2025) | 38,980,376 (2025) |
| Density | 67.2 /km² | 64.6 /km² |
| Currency | Mexican peso (MXN) | Ukrainian hryvnia (UAH) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Ukrainian |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 | UTC+02:00 |
| Calling code | +52 | +380 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | Europe |
| ISO codes | MX / MEX | UA / UKR |

## Population density

Mexico is slightly more densely populated, by 4.0% — 67 against 65 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 Ukrainian hryvnia.
- 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.

## Ukraine

The largest country entirely within Europe. About a quarter of the world's chernozem — the deep black soil that makes grain farming so productive — lies here. The Carpathians in the west reach 2,061 m, and the rest of the country is largely steppe drained by the Dnieper.

> 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 Ukraine?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 603,550 km².

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

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 38,980,376.

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

Mexico is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 and Ukraine is UTC+02:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [Ukraine](https://atoneplace.net/country/ukraine/)
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## 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]