Location State of New Mexico Government County government | Number 33 | |
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Populations 740 (Harding) – 670,968 (Bernalillo) Areas 109 square miles (280 km) (Los Alamos) – 6,928 square miles (17,940 km) (Catron) Subdivisions cities, towns, townships, unincorporated communities, indian reservations, Pueblo, census designated place |
This is a list of the 33 counties in New Mexico. There were originally nine counties formed in 1852. Santa Ana County, New Mexico Territory, one of the nine original counties, was annexed in 1876 to Bernalillo County, New Mexico.
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The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, which is used by the United States government to uniquely identify states and counties, is provided with each entry. New Mexico's code is 35, which when combined with any county code would be written as 35XXX. The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county.
List
For comparison, the population estimate for the state of New Mexico as of July 2011 was 2,082,224, and the area was 7005121589000000000♠121,589 mi² (315,194 km²).
Former counties
References
List of counties in New Mexico Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA