State size comparison
compared to
New Mexico is about 3 times bigger than Kentucky.
Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km,
while New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km, making
New Mexico 205% larger than Kentucky.
Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people
(2.3 million fewer people live in New Mexico).
This to-scale comparison of
Kentucky
vs.
New Mexico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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