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History is the study and interpretation of the record of people, societies and civilisations. The term history comes from the Greek ἱστορία historia, "an account of one's inquiries," and shares that etymology with the English word story. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica stated that "history in the wider sense is all that has happened, not merely all the phenomena of human life, but those of the natural world as well. It is everything that undergoes change; and as modern science has shown that there is nothing absolutely static, therefore, the whole universe, and every part of it, has its history."

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State of New Mexico
Estado de Nuevo México


Flag of New Mexico	Seal of New Mexico
Nickname(s): Land of Enchantment / Tierra del Encanto
Motto(s): Crescit undo

Capital

Santa Fe

Largest city

Albuquerque

Area

Ranked 5^th

- Total

121,665 sq mi
(315,194 km²)

- Width

342 miles (550 km)

- Length

370 miles (595 km)

- % water

0.2

- Latitude

31°20'N to 37°North

- Longitude

103°W to 109°W

Population

Ranked 36^th

- Total (2000)

1,819,046

- Density

14.98/sq mi
5.79/km² (45^th)

Elevation

- Highest point

Wheeler Peak^[1]
13,161 ft (4,014 m)

- Mean

5,692 ft (1,735 m)

- Lowest point

Red Bluff Reservoir^[1]
2,842 ft (866 m)

Admission to Union

January 6, 1912 (47^th)

Governor

Bill Richardson (D)

U.S. Senators

Pete Domenici (R)
Jeff Bingaman (D)

Time zone

Mountain: UTC-7/-6

Abbreviations

NM US-NM

Web site

www.newmexico.gov

New Mexico is a southwestern state in the United States of America. Over its relatively long history it has also been occupied by Native American populations and has been part of the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain, a province of Mexico and a U.S. territory. Among U.S. states, New Mexico has simultaneously the highest percentage of Hispanic Americans (some recent immigrants and others descendants of Spanish colonists) and the second-highest percentage of Native Americans (mostly Navajo and Pueblo peoples). As a result, the demographics and culture of the state are unique for their strong Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. Amerindian cultural influences.

Geography

Further information: List of New Mexico counties

Digitally colored elevation map of NM

The eastern border of New Mexico lies along 103° W with Oklahoma, and 3 miles (5 km) west of 103° W with Texas. Texas also lies south of most of New Mexico, although the southwestern boot-heel borders the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora. The western border with Arizona runs along 109° W. The 37° N parallel forms the northern boundary with Colorado. The states of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah come together at the Four Corners in the northwestern corner of New Mexico.

The landscape ranges from wide, rose-colored deserts to broken mesas to high, snow-capped peaks. Despite New Mexico's arid image, heavily forested mountain wildernesses cover a significant portion of the state. Part of the Rocky Mountains, the broken, north-south oriented Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christ) range and the Jemez Mountains flank the sides of the Rio Grande from the rugged, pastoral north through the center of the state.

Cacti, yuccas, creosote bush, sagebrush, and desert grasses cover the broad, semiarid plains that cover the southern portion of the state.

The Federal government protects millions of acres of New Mexico as national forests including:

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U.S. reconnaissance photograph of San Cristobal Cuba, taken from a RF-101 Voodoo spy plane following the Cuban missile crisis.

Credit: John F. Kennedy Library

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