State size comparison
compared to
Colorado is about 1.2 times smaller than New Mexico.
New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km,
while Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, making
Colorado 85.47% the size of New Mexico.
Meanwhile, the population of New Mexico is ~2.1 million people
(3.0 million more people live in Colorado).
This to-scale comparison of
New Mexico
vs.
Colorado
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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