State size comparison
compared to
Alabama is about 2.4 times smaller than New Mexico.
New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km, while Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, making Alabama 41.81% the size of New Mexico. Meanwhile, the population of New Mexico is ~2.1 million people (2.7 million more people live in Alabama).
This to-scale comparison of
New Mexico
vs.
Alabama
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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