Mexico covers 1,964,375 km² on the new Equal Earth world map, 1.4% of all land on Earth. It ranks 14th of 237 countries worldwide and 4th in North America. At 24° latitude the old Mercator map inflates area by about 1.2×, drawing it closer to 2,350,964 km², a difference of roughly 20%.
For scale, Mexico is roughly the same size as Indonesia (1,904,569 km²).
You could fit 3 of Afghanistan inside Mexico.
Mexico: key figures
| True area | 1,964,375 km² |
| World rank | 14th |
| Share of world land | 1.4% |
| Rank in North America | 4th / 38 |
| Old-map (Mercator) inflation | 1.2× |
| Apparent size on Mercator | 2,350,964 km² |
Largest countries in North America (true area)
| North America | |
|---|
| Canada | 9,984,670 km² |
| United States | 9,525,067 km² |
| Greenland | 2,166,086 km² |
| Mexico (this country) | 1,964,375 km² |
| Nicaragua | 130,373 km² |
| Honduras | 112,492 km² |