Country size comparison
compared to
New Mexico is about 31 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km, making New Mexico 3.28% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in New Mexico).
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