City Map Compare/Guatemala City vs Mexico City
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Guatemala City

470 km²

Mexico City

2,134 km²

Guatemala City vs Mexico City: Urban Area Size

Mexico City covers 2,134 km² of contiguous built-up land, 4.5× the built-up area of Guatemala City (470 km²).

Guatemala CityMexico City
Urban areaGuatemala CityMexico City
Population (2025)2.90 million17.6 million
Built-up area470 km²2,134 km²
Density6,172 /km²8,266 /km²

Urban area = contiguous built-up land and the people living in it in 2025, drawn the same way for every city regardless of administrative boundaries. Source: GHSL Urban Centre Database R2024A, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0); some names adjusted to the city names people use, and country attribution follows the dataset.

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