State size comparison
compared to
California is about 1.3 times bigger than New Mexico.
New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 28% larger than New Mexico.
Meanwhile, the population of New Mexico is ~2.1 million people
(35.2 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
New Mexico
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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