State size comparison
compared to
New Mexico is about 2.5 times bigger than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km, making New Mexico 149% larger than North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (7.5 million fewer people live in New Mexico).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
New Mexico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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