Map of Mexico

Mexico is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 23.0° N, 102.0° W. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Belize, Guatemala and United States — and also has its own coastline. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Mexico is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Mexico shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Mexico covers about 1,964,375 km² (758,449 sq mi). That makes it the 13th-largest country in the world by area and the 3rd-largest in North America, larger by area than 20 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 130,575,786, the 10th-largest in the world and the 2nd-largest in North America, accounting for about 22% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Mexico has an average population density of about 66 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 2nd by population and 3rd by area.

The seat of government is Mexico City, and the official currency is the Mexican peso (MXN, $), and the main official language is Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes time zones UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00 and UTC-06:00.

Mexico carries the ISO country codes MX and MEX, dials on the international calling code +52 and uses the .mx internet domain.

Mexico shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are United States (capital Washington, D.C., about 340,110,988 people), Guatemala (capital Guatemala City, about 18,079,810 people) and Belize (capital Belmopan, about 417,634 people).

By area, Mexico is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 23.0° N, 102.0° W and opens at zoom level 4, framing Mexico within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Mexico City. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Mexico lies about 2,553 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Mexico spans 3 time zones, from UTC-08:00 to UTC-06:00, reflecting the spread of its territory across the globe. Each is expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); where a country covers several zones, the official local time can differ from one part of it to another.

The official currency is the Mexican peso (MXN, $).

The official language is Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +52 and websites commonly use the .mx internet domain.

In short, Mexico is a coastal country in North America, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Mexico City. Mexico has a population of about 130,575,786 and covers around 1,964,375 km² (758,449 sq mi), ranking it 10th in the world by population and 13th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Mexico.

The flag of Mexico is composed of three equal vertical bands of green, white and red, with the national coat of arms centered in the white band.

The flag of Mexico is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.