Mexico is North America's third-largest country, home to ancient Aztec and Maya civilizations. Mexico City is built on the ruins of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.
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These figures are calculated from the data on this page and compared with the other 195 countries Beelad covers.
| Population density | 66 people per km² rank 119 of 196 (highest first); the average across all 196 countries is 60 per km² |
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| Share of world population | 1.6 % world total: 8,091,734,930 (UN, 1 July 2023) |
| Share of North America | 21.5% of its people, 8.7% of its land area |
| Area in square miles | 758,449 1 km² = 0.386 sq mi |
| Closest in size | Indonesia (1,904,569 km²) |
| Closest in population | Ethiopia (128,691,692 people) |
Mexico is the only country in our list that uses MXN.