Mexico

Facts

What the numbers say about Mexico

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 8.67× the size of Mexico.
• At 68 people per km², Mexico is the 100th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Mexico lies at 24°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.2×.
• Laid out flat, Mexico's main territory stretches about 2,040 km north to south and 2,990 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 1,961,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 1,958,000 km², to within 2%.

How Mexico measures up

Mexico holds 8.1% of the land area and 22% of the people of the 27 countries listed for North America. In Central America it is the 1st largest of 8.

Where Mexico sits

• Mexico's centre lies at 23.9°N, 102.2°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 2,660 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 15°N to 33°N, about 2,020 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Mexico had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Mexico would have 2.45 billion people. It has 132.3 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Mexico would have 7.3 million people. It has 132.3 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 141.7 million.

States of Mexico

Natural Earth’s file divides Mexico into 32 states. Each has its own page, drawn at true size and matched to the countries closest to it in area and in people.

• Chihuahua248,000 km²
• Sonora179,000 km²
• Coahuila151,000 km²
• Durango121,000 km²
• Oaxaca92,200 km²
• Jalisco80,000 km²
• Tamaulipas79,600 km²
• Zacatecas74,700 km²

All 32 states, matched to countries

Compare Mexico

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• Mexico vs Sudan
• Mexico vs Libya
• Mexico vs Iran
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