---
title: "Mexico vs Vietnam — area, population, currency"
description: "Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900 people; Vietnam is 331,210 km² with 101,598,527. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/mexico-vs-vietnam/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Mexico vs Vietnam

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

1,964,375 km² vs 331,210 km² · 131,946,900 vs 101,598,527

Mexico is 5.9 times larger than Vietnam — 1,964,375 against 331,210 km². Mexico is 1.3 times more populous than Vietnam — 131,946,900 against 101,598,527 people.

## Side by side

|  | Mexico | Vietnam |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Mexico City | Hanoi |
| Area | 1,964,375 km² | 331,210 km² |
| Population | 131,946,900 (2025) | 101,598,527 (2025) |
| Density | 67.2 /km² | 306.7 /km² |
| Currency | Mexican peso (MXN) | Vietnamese đồng (VND) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Vietnamese |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 | UTC+07:00 |
| Calling code | +52 | +84 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | Asia |
| ISO codes | MX / MEX | VN / VNM |

## Population density

Vietnam is 4.6 times more densely populated than Mexico — 307 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 Vietnamese đồng.
- 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.

## Vietnam

Long and narrow: about 1,650 km from north to south and under 50 km wide at the waist. Hang Sơn Đoòng in Phong Nha is the largest known cave passage in the world, big enough to hold a New York block of 40-storey buildings, with its own river, jungle and clouds. Hạ Long Bay holds roughly 1,600 limestone karst islands.

> 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 Vietnam?

Mexico is larger — 1,964,375 km² against 331,210 km².

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

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 101,598,527.

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

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

## Related pages

- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [Vietnam](https://atoneplace.net/country/vietnam/)
- [United States vs Vietnam](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/united-states-vs-vietnam/)
- [India vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-mexico/)
- [India vs Vietnam](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-vietnam/)
- [China vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-mexico/)
- [China vs Vietnam](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-vietnam/)
- [United Kingdom vs Vietnam](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/united-kingdom-vs-vietnam/)
- [Japan vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-mexico/)
- [Japan vs Vietnam](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-vietnam/)
- [Canada vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Vietnam](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-vietnam/)
- [Australia vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-mexico/)
- [Australia vs Vietnam](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-vietnam/)

## 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]