State size comparison
compared to
New Mexico is about 2.4 times bigger than Alabama.
Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, while New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km, making New Mexico 139% larger than Alabama. Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people (2.7 million fewer people live in New Mexico).
This to-scale comparison of
Alabama
vs.
New Mexico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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