Mexico

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
MX
ISO alpha-3
MEX
ISO numeric
484
FIPS 10-4
MX
GeoNames ID
3996063

Key facts

Capital
Mexico City
Area
1,972,550 km²
Population
126,190,788
Currency
Peso (MXN)
Calling code
+52
Top-level domain
.mx
Official languages
es-MX

Continent

Name
North America
Code
NA
In this dataset
42 countries

North America in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
23
Longitude
-102
Min latitude
14.546279476000095
Min longitude
-118.36880422899992
Max latitude
32.71283640500009
Max longitude
-86.70059160099993

Boundary

Mexico

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/MX?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 1972550,
    "capital": "Mexico City",
    "continent_code": "NA",
    "currency_code": "MXN",
    "iso3_code": "MEX",
    "iso_code": "MX",
    "name": "Mexico",
    "population": 126190788
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/MX/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=MX
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=MX
  • /v1/timezones?country=MX
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Name in other languages

Arabic
المكسيك
Chinese
墨西哥
English
Mexico
French
Mexique
German
Mexiko
Hindi
मैक्सिको
Italian
Messico
Japanese
メキシコ
Korean
멕시코
Portuguese
México
Russian
Мексика
Spanish
México
Total language variants
229

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
America/Bahia_Banderas UTC-06:00 UTC-06:00
America/Cancun UTC-05:00 UTC-05:00
America/Chihuahua UTC-06:00 UTC-06:00
America/Ciudad_Juarez UTC-07:00 UTC-06:00
America/Hermosillo UTC-07:00 UTC-07:00
America/Matamoros UTC-06:00 UTC-05:00
America/Mazatlan UTC-07:00 UTC-07:00
America/Merida UTC-06:00 UTC-06:00
America/Mexico_City UTC-06:00 UTC-06:00
America/Monterrey UTC-06:00 UTC-06:00
America/Ojinaga UTC-06:00 UTC-05:00
America/Tijuana UTC-08:00 UTC-07:00

Postal code format

Format
#####
Pattern
^(\d{5})$

First-level administrative regions

  • Estado de México
  • Ciudad de México
  • Estado de Jalisco
  • Estado de Veracruz-Llave
  • Estado de Puebla
  • Estado de Guanajuato
  • Estado de Nuevo León
  • Estado de Chiapas
  • Estado de Michoacán de Ocampo
  • Estado de Oaxaca
  • Estado de Baja California
  • Estado de Chihuahua
  • Estado de Guerrero
  • Estado de Tamaulipas
  • Estado de Coahuila de Zaragoza
  • Estado de Sinaloa
  • Estado de Sonora
  • Estado de San Luis Potosí
  • Estado de Tabasco
  • Estado de Querétaro
  • Estado de Yucatán
  • Estado de Morelos
  • Estado de Quintana Roo
  • Estado de Durango

24 of 32 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
Mexico City 12,294,193
Tijuana 1,922,523
Iztapalapa 1,835,486
Puebla 1,692,181
Ecatepec de Morelos 1,645,352
Santiago de Querétaro 1,594,212
León de los Aldama 1,579,803
Ciudad Juárez 1,512,450
Zapopan 1,476,491
Guadalajara 1,385,629

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
305,787
First-level regions
32
Postal codes
144,655
Name languages
229
Boundary polygon
Yes

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