Mexico
Mexico
Capital Mexico City
1,964,375 km² · 131,946,900 people (2025) · Mexican peso
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.
The facts
- Capital
- Mexico City
- Area
- 1,964,375 km² — 758,449 sq mi
- Population
- 131,946,900 (2025)
- Density
- 67.2 people per km²
- Currency
- Mexican peso (MXN, $)
- Official language
- Spanish
- Time zones
- UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00
- Calling code
- +52
- Drives on the
- right
- ISO codes
- MX · MEX
- Continent
- North America
How it compares
- By area
- 14 of 200
- By population
- 11 of 200
Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.
Countries of a similar size
| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Greenland | 2,166,086 | 56,831 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2,149,690 | 36,973,555 |
| Mexico ← | 1,964,375 | 131,946,900 |
| Indonesia | 1,904,569 | 285,721,236 |
| Sudan | 1,861,484 | 51,662,147 |
Common questions
- What is the capital of Mexico?
- Mexico City
- What currency does Mexico use?
- The Mexican peso (MXN).
- How big is Mexico?
- 1,964,375 km², or 758,449 square miles — 14 of 200 by area.
- Which side of the road does Mexico drive on?
- The right.
Related pages
- Greenland 2,166,086 km²
- Saudi Arabia 2,149,690 km²
- Indonesia 1,904,569 km²
- Sudan 1,861,484 km²
- United States North America
- Canada North America
- Guatemala North America
- Haiti North America
- Dominican Republic North America
- Honduras North America
- Cuba North America
- Nicaragua North America
Sources
- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (Public domain (US Government))
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (CC BY 4.0)