Country size comparison

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Australia is about 25 times bigger than New Mexico.

New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 2,363% larger than New Mexico. Meanwhile, the population of New Mexico is ~2.1 million people (24.1 million more people live in Australia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New Mexico vs. Australia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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