State size comparison
compared to
Kentucky is about 3 times smaller than New Mexico.
New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 32.74% the size of New Mexico. Meanwhile, the population of New Mexico is ~2.1 million people (2.3 million more people live in Kentucky).
This to-scale comparison of
New Mexico
vs.
Kentucky
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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