Mexico vs United Kingdom

Mexico is 8.1 times larger than United Kingdom — 1,964,375 against 243,610 km². Mexico is 1.9 times more populous than United Kingdom — 131,946,900 against 69,487,000 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Kingdom is 4.2 times more densely populated than Mexico — 285 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

• They drive on opposite sides — Mexico on the right, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the Mexican peso and the British pound.
• 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.

United Kingdom

Made up of Great Britain, the north-east of Ireland and around 6,000 smaller islands. No point in the UK is more than about 113 km from the sea. Ben Nevis, the highest point, is 1,345 m, which is modest — but the country has around 31,000 km of coastline once every inlet is counted.

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.