Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Mexico City
- Region
- Americas, North America
- Population
- 131,946,900 (2025)
- Area
- 1,972,550 km²
- Currency
- Mexican peso (MXN)
- Languages
- Spanish
- Calling code
- +52
- Internet domain
- .mx
- ISO codes
- MX, MEX, 484
- Time zone
- UTC-8:00 to UTC-5:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Mexico covers about 1,972,550 square kilometres. By area it ranks 14th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Greenland and a little larger than Saudi Arabia. It shares a land border with 3 neighbours: Belize, Guatemala, United States. Its centre lies at about 23° north, 102° west, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 132 million people live in Mexico (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 11th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 1.6 percent of the world's people. On average there are 67 people to each square kilometre. About 80 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 75 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Spanish. A person from Mexico is called Mexican.
Money and economy
The currency is the Mexican peso (code MXN, symbol $). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 1.83 trillion (2025), which is about US$ 13,889 for each person (2025).
Time
Mexico spans 12 time zone areas, from UTC-8:00 to UTC-5:00. Clocks are moved for daylight saving time in part of the year.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Mexico City | 12,294,193 |
| Tijuana | 1,922,523 |
| Iztapalapa | 1,835,486 |
| Puebla | 1,692,181 |
| Ecatepec de Morelos | 1,645,352 |
| Santiago de Querétaro | 1,594,212 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in North America
Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, United States Minor Outlying Islands. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.