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State of New Mexico
Timeline: Napoleon's World

OTL equivalent: New Mexico and Arizona
State of United States
Flag New Mexico
Flag of New Mexico
Location New Mexico
Location of New Mexico in the United States
Capital Santa Fe
Largest City Mesa
Other Cities Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Tucson
Language
  Official
 
English
  Others Spanish
Ethnic Groups
  Main
 
White (non-Hispanic), Hispanic White
  Others Black, Asian, Pacific Islander
Demonym New Mexican
Government Representative democracy
  Legislature State Legislature
Area 235,579 sq. mi 
Population 9,245,677 
Admission 1913
Currency US Dollar
Time Zone Mountain Standard
Abbreviations NM

New Mexico is a state located in the Southwestern region of the United States. It is the second-most extensive state, behind only Texas, and has the 14th highest population in the US. Admitted to the Union in 1913, it was the last state admitted and is thus often called the "50th state."

New Mexico has a wide variety of geographic features as it is located in the Rocky Mountains, the Sonoran Desert, and the Great Basin. Much of the state's population is clustered in a handful of metropolitan regions - the Mesa metropolitan area that anchors the state's western half, the Tucson area in the south, the Albuquerque-Santa Fe agglomeration in the east that includes the state capital, and the Las Cruces region near the Mexican border.

Long a sparsely-populated state, New Mexico has seen rapid growth since the late 1960s as part of the "Sunbelt," growth driven by retirees from the Northeast and Midwest seeking warmer climates as well as the influx of Hispanics from Mexico and Central America. By the 2000s, Mesa had emerged not only as the largest city in the state but as one of the largest cities in the country as well.

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