State size comparison
compared to
New Mexico is about 2.2 times bigger than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km, making New Mexico 118% larger than Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (10.8 million fewer people live in New Mexico).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
New Mexico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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