Land Area Ranked 5th

• Total 121,700 sq mi (315,199 km2)
• Width 344 miles (552 km)
• Length 371 miles (596 km)
• % water 0.3
• Latitude 31° 20′ N to 37° N
• Longitude 103° W to 109° 3′ W

Before statehood  Nuevo México (1598–1848), New Mexico Territory (1850–1912)

Admitted to the Union January 6, 1912 (47th)

Metes and Bounds

The name of this state is New Mexico, and its boundaries are as follows: Beginning at the point where the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude intersects the one hundred and third meridian west from Greenwich; thence along said one hundred and third meridian to the thirty-second parallel of north latitude; thence along said thirty-second parallel to the Rio Grande, also known as the Rio Bravo del Norte, as it existed on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty; thence, following the main channel of said river, as it existed on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, to the parallel of thirty-one degrees forty-seven minutes north latitude; thence west one hundred miles to a point; thence south to the parallel of thirty-one degrees twenty minutes north latitude; thence along said parallel of thirty-one degrees twenty minutes, to the thirty-second meridian of longitude west from Washington; thence along said thirtysecond meridian to the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude; thence along said thirtyseventh parallel to the point of beginning.