State size comparison
compared to
Texas is about 2.2 times bigger than New Mexico.
New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km, while Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, making Texas 116% larger than New Mexico. Meanwhile, the population of New Mexico is ~2.1 million people (23.1 million more people live in Texas).
This to-scale comparison of
New Mexico
vs.
Texas
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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