State size comparison
compared to
Maryland is about 12 times smaller than New Mexico.
New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 8.05% the size of New Mexico. Meanwhile, the population of New Mexico is ~2.1 million people (3.7 million more people live in Maryland).
This to-scale comparison of
New Mexico
vs.
Maryland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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