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title: "Mexico vs Vatican City — area, population, currency"
description: "Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900 people; Vatican City is 0.44 km² with 1,000. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-vatican-city/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Mexico vs Vatican City

**Mexico vs Vatican City: Mexico is larger; Mexico has more people**

1,964,375 km² vs 0.44 km² · 131,946,900 vs 1,000

Mexico is 4464489 times larger than Vatican City — 1,964,375 against 0 km². Mexico is 131947 times more populous than Vatican City — 131,946,900 against 1,000 people.

## Side by side

|  | Mexico | Vatican City |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Mexico City | Vatican City |
| Area | 1,964,375 km² | 0.44 km² |
| Population | 131,946,900 (2025) | 1,000 (2024) |
| Density | 67.2 /km² | 2272.7 /km² |
| Currency | Mexican peso (MXN) | Euro (EUR) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Italian, Latin |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 | UTC+01:00 |
| Calling code | +52 | +3 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | Europe |
| ISO codes | MX / MEX | VA / VAT |

## Population density

Vatican City is 34 times more densely populated than Mexico — 2,273 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 Euro.
- 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.

## Vatican City

The smallest country in the world by both area and population: about 0.44 km², or roughly an eighth the size of New York's Central Park, with fewer than a thousand residents. Its border with Rome is about 3.4 km long. St Peter's Basilica covers around 15,000 m² and is one of the largest churches ever built.

> 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 Vatican City?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 0.44 km².

### Which has more people, Mexico or Vatican City?

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 1,000.

### What is the time difference between Mexico and Vatican City?

Mexico is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 and Vatican City 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/)
- [Vatican City](https://atoneplace.net/country/vatican-city/)
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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]