State size comparison
compared to
New Mexico is about 1.2 times bigger than Colorado.
Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, while New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km, making New Mexico 17% larger than Colorado. Meanwhile, the population of Colorado is ~5.0 million people (3.0 million fewer people live in New Mexico).
This to-scale comparison of
Colorado
vs.
New Mexico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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