State size comparison
compared to
New Mexico is about 25 times bigger than Connecticut.
Connecticut is approximately 12,548 sq km, while New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km, making New Mexico 2,405% larger than Connecticut. Meanwhile, the population of Connecticut is ~3.6 million people (1.5 million fewer people live in New Mexico).
This to-scale comparison of
Connecticut
vs.
New Mexico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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