Has 35 UNESCO World Heritage Sites and gave the world chocolate, maize, tomatoes, vanilla and chilli.
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Mexico
United Mexican States ยท Mรฉxico
North America
ยท Central America
0Population
1.96Mkmยฒ of land
$9.95KGDP / person
Mexico CityCapital
- ISO codes
- MX ยท MEX
- Density
- 65 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Mexican peso (MXN)
- Dial code
- +52
- Internet domain
- .mx
- Time zones
- 12
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 23.9200ยฐ N, 102.2890ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Mexican
- UN region
- Americas ยท Central America
- Economy
- Emerging region: MIKT
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $1.27T
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Mexico stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
10th
of 242 ยท 1.66% of world population
Land area
15th
of 242 ยท 1.31% of world land
GDP per person
104th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
139th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Mexico
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 127,575,529 people, the 10th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 1.66 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 1,964,375 kmยฒ, making it the 15th largest country here - about 8.1 times the size of the United Kingdom.
Population density is about 65 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Mexico City, at 19.44ยฐ N, 99.13ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 19,028,000.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Belize, Guatemala and United States of America.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 12 time zones, from America/Bahia Banderas to America/Tijuana.
The currency is the Mexican peso (MXN, symbol $).
The official language is Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
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America/Cancun
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Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Mexico City
Distrito Federal
19.4444ยฐ N, 99.1329ยฐ W
19.03M
2
Guadalajara
Jalisco
20.6720ยฐ N, 103.3320ยฐ W
4.2M
3
Monterrey
Nuevo Leรณn
25.6719ยฐ N, 100.3319ยฐ W
3.71M
4
Puebla
Puebla
19.0519ยฐ N, 98.2020ยฐ W
2.2M
5
Tijuana
Baja California
32.5020ยฐ N, 117.0819ยฐ W
1.55M
6
Leรณn
Guanajuato
21.1519ยฐ N, 101.7020ยฐ W
1.49M
7
Torreรณn
Coahuila
25.5720ยฐ N, 103.4219ยฐ W
1.14M
8
San Luis Potosรญ
San Luis Potosรญ
22.1719ยฐ N, 101.0019ยฐ W
992K
9
Mรฉrida
Yucatรกn
20.9686ยฐ N, 89.6186ยฐ W
965K
10
Mexicali
Baja California
32.6519ยฐ N, 115.4820ยฐ W
885K
๐ Peaks
Pico de Orizaba
5,636 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Chichรฉn Itzรก
Ancient
At each equinox the afternoon sun throws a serpent of shadow down the staircase of El Castillo.
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Mexico.