Country profile / MX
Mexico
United Mexican States
Locally: México
Capital
Mexico City
Region
North America
ISO
MX
Local time in Mexico
live · IANAMexico City
America/Mexico_City
Cancun
America/Cancun
Merida
America/Merida
Monterrey
America/Monterrey
Showing 4 of 12 time zones. The full identifier list appears in the reference ledger below.
Reference ledger
A sense of scale
area percentileLarger than 94% of places in this atlas.
At 1,964,375 km², Mexico ranks 15 of 241 records by land area. This comparison uses the same bundled source for every profile, so the scale is internally consistent.
Land neighbors
3Field notes
2 notes“Mexico City is sinking about 10 inches per year because it was built on a lake.”
02Chocolate originated in Mexico where the Aztecs and Mayans used cacao beans.
Use these identifiers accurately
The two-letter code MX is the compact ISO identifier used in addresses, locale selectors, and many data feeds. The dialing prefix +52 belongs at the start of an international phone number. Time zone names such as America/Mexico_City should be preferred over a fixed UTC offset because they carry daylight-saving rules.
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