New Mexico // Santa Fe, NM // Southwest Region // Mountain Time (The Land of Enchantment) Territory established: December 13, 1850 Statehood granted: January 6, 1912 // 47th State New Mexico was formed out of land from the Louisiana Purchase (1803), the Mexican cession (1848), and land ceded by the State of Texas (1850). [View map of US territorial acquisition]

#4309 // April 16, 2010 (self-adhesive coil definitive) Flags of Our Nation Series New Mexico State Flag and hot-air balloons	#1983 // April 14, 1982 (ex pane of 50 different stamps) State Bird & Flower of New Mexico Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) and Yucca Flower	#1679 // February 23, 1976 (ex pane of 50 different stamps) American Bicentennial Series New Mexico State Flag

#944 // October 16, 1946 // Santa Fe, NM General Stephen W. Kearny Expedition Liberation of Santa Fe Centennial "Capture of Santa Fe" (American-Mexican War 1846-1848), painting by Kenneth M. Chapman (* 1875, † 1968)	#1191 // January 6, 1962 // Santa Fe, NM 50th Anniversary of New Mexico Statehood "Shiprock", rock formation in San Juan County, Navajo Indian reservation, NM

#4591 // January 6, 2012 // Santa Fe, NM New Mexico Statehood Centennial Landscape in northern New Mexico ca. 65 miles northwest of Albuquerque with the two peaks "Cerro de Santa Clara", "Cerro de Guadalupe", and the "Rio Puerco", based on an oil painting by artist Doug West

#3591 // April 4, 2002 (ex pane of 50 stamps, one for each state) Greetings from New Mexico Illustration of contemporary postcard in the style of the 1930s/1940s View New Mexico state quarter View New Mexico state map View New Mexico clock

	"Mexico" is an Aztec Indian word meaning "place of Mexitli", an Aztec god. Find out more facts & trivia
	Land Area rounded mi2 [km2] 121,356 [314.311] ranked 5th	Population (census 2010) 2,059,179 ranked 36th	Population Density per mi2 [km2] of land area 17 [7] ranked 46th
	The State of New Mexico has 33 counties.
	New Mexico shares in the south a 180-mile-long (290 km) international border with the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
	Historic Route 66 leads 487 miles (784 km) through New Mexico.