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title: "Mexico vs Venezuela — area, population, currency"
description: "Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900 people; Venezuela is 912,050 km² with 28,516,896. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-venezuela/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Mexico vs Venezuela

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

1,964,375 km² vs 912,050 km² · 131,946,900 vs 28,516,896

Mexico is 2.2 times larger than Venezuela — 1,964,375 against 912,050 km². Mexico is 4.6 times more populous than Venezuela — 131,946,900 against 28,516,896 people.

## Side by side

|  | Mexico | Venezuela |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Mexico City | Caracas |
| Area | 1,964,375 km² | 912,050 km² |
| Population | 131,946,900 (2025) | 28,516,896 (2025) |
| Density | 67.2 /km² | 31.3 /km² |
| Currency | Mexican peso (MXN) | Venezuelan bolívar soberano (VES) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 | UTC-04:00 |
| Calling code | +52 | +58 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | South America |
| ISO codes | MX / MEX | VE / VEN |

## Population density

Mexico is 2.1 times more densely populated than Venezuela — 67 against 31 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 Venezuelan bolívar soberano.
- Mexico spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — North America and South America.

## 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.

## Venezuela

Angel Falls drops 979 m from the top of Auyán-tepui, the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world — so high that in the dry season much of the water turns to mist before it lands. The tepuis are flat-topped sandstone table mountains, each an island of species cut off for millions of years. Lake Maracaibo sees more lightning than anywhere else on Earth, around 250 strikes per km² a year.

> 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 Venezuela?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 912,050 km².

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

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 28,516,896.

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

Mexico is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 and Venezuela is UTC-04:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [Venezuela](https://atoneplace.net/country/venezuela/)
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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]