State size comparison
compared to
Alaska is about 4.7 times bigger than New Mexico.
New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 371% larger than New Mexico. Meanwhile, the population of New Mexico is ~2.1 million people (1.3 million fewer people live in Alaska).
This to-scale comparison of
New Mexico
vs.
Alaska
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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