Mexico vs Texas size comparison

Every way to compare Mexico and Texas

Size depends on what you count. Total area includes lakes, rivers and coastal water; land area leaves them out. Every row below uses the same published sources.

How much bigger is Mexico than Texas?

Mexico covers 758,449 sq mi (1,964,375 sq km). Texas covers 268,596 sq mi (695,662 sq km). That makes Mexico 2.82 times the size of Texas, or 182 percent larger. Put the other way, Texas is 35 percent of the size of Mexico, and about 2.8 copies of Texas would fit inside it.

The difference is 1,268,713 sq km (489,853 sq mi).

Population: Mexico vs Texas

Mexico has more people: 130,739,927 against 31,290,831 for Texas, about 4.2 times as many. Per square kilometer of total area, Mexico has 66.6 people and Texas 45.0.

Why the two look different on most world maps

Web maps and many classroom maps use the Mercator projection, which keeps shapes and directions true but enlarges areas away from the equator. The enlargement grows with latitude: an area at latitude φ is drawn about 1 / cos²(φ) times its size compared with the same area at the equator.

Mexico is centered near 24° N, where Mercator inflates areas about 1.2 times. Texas is centered near 32° N, where the factor is about 1.4. So on a Mercator map Mexico looks roughly 2.5 times the size of Texas, against 2.82 in reality. This uses each shape's center, so treat it as a rough guide.

The outlines at the top of this page use a Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centered on each shape, so their drawn areas compare the same way as the published figures. To drag any country across a map yourself, use the country size comparison tool.

More about Mexico and Texas

Texas borders four Mexican states: Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.

Mexico has about four times as many people as Texas.

Sources and definitions

Mexico: 1,964,375 sq km total, 1,943,945 sq km land, from the CIA World Factbook.

Texas: 695,662 sq km total, 676,587 sq km land, from the Census Bureau's state area measurements.

The CIA stopped publishing the World Factbook in February 2026. Figures here come from its final edition, read from a public mirror of the data, and will not change unless another official source replaces them. Outlines come from Natural Earth (via world-atlas) and Census cartographic boundary files, and are simplified for drawing; the numbers never come from the outlines.