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Map of the United States with New Mexico highlighted. New Mexico is a state located in the Western United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, New Mexico is the 15th least-populous state with 2,117,522 inhabitants [1] but the 5th-largest by land area, spanning 121,298.15 square miles (314,160.8 km 2). [2]
v. t. e. There are 33 counties in the U.S. state of New Mexico . The New Mexico Territory was organized in September 1850. The first nine counties in the territory to be created, in 1852, were Bernalillo, Doña Ana, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Ana, Santa Fe, Socorro, Taos, and Valencia Counties. Mora County was created in 1860.
Geography of New Mexico. With a total area of 121,590 square miles (314,900 km 2 ), [1] New Mexico is the fifth-largest state, after Alaska, Texas, California, and Montana. Its eastern border lies along 103°W longitude with the state of Oklahoma, and 2.2 miles (3.5 kilometres) west of 103°W longitude with Texas (due to a 19th-century ...
New Mexico's largest city is Albuquerque, and its state capital is Santa Fe, the oldest state capital in the U.S., founded in 1610 as the government seat of Nuevo México in New Spain. New Mexico is the fifth-largest of the fifty states by area, but with just over 2.1 million residents, ranks 36th in population and 46th in population density. [8]
Carlsbad (/ ˈ k ɑːr l z b æ d / KARLZ-bad) is a city in and the county seat of Eddy County, New Mexico, United States. [4] As of the 2020 census , the city population was 32,238. [ 5 ] Carlsbad is centered at the intersection of U.S. Routes 62 / 180 and 285 , and is the principal city of the Carlsbad-Artesia Micropolitan Statistical Area ...
Grants is a city in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. It is located about 78 miles (126 km) west of Albuquerque. The population was 9,163 at the 2020 Census. [5] It is the county seat of Cibola County. [6] Grants is located along the Trails of the Ancients Byway, one of the designated New Mexico Scenic Byways.
Alamogordo ( / ˌæləməˈɡɔːrdoʊ /) is the seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States. A city in the Tularosa Basin of the Chihuahuan Desert, it is bordered on the east by the Sacramento Mountains and to the west by Holloman Air Force Base. The population was 31,384 as of the 2020 census.
Cibola County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,172. [ 1] Its county seat is Grants. [ 2] It is New Mexico's youngest county, and the third youngest county in the United States, created on June 19, 1981, from the westernmost four-fifths of the formerly much larger Valencia County .