New Mexico
About New Mexico
New Mexico is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also borders the state of Texas to the east and southeast, Oklahoma to the northeast, and shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora to the south. New Mexico's largest city is Albuquerque, and its state capital is Santa Fe, the oldest state capital in the U.S.—founded in 1610 as the government seat of Nuevo México in New Spain—and the highest in elevation, at 6,998 feet (2,133 m).
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In 2023 New Mexico officially signed into law a state smell: green chilies roasting in the fall.
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New Mexico produces around 60% of the US chili pepper crop.
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New Mexico has an official state question, red or green, asking which chili sauce you want, and answering Christmas gets you both.
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New Mexico's English-language state song, Oh Fair New Mexico, was written by Elizabeth Garrett, daughter of the lawman Pat Garrett.
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New Mexico's official state reptile is the New Mexico whiptail lizard, or Cnemidophorus neomexicanus.
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Lew Wallace wrote Ben-Hur while serving as territorial governor of New Mexico.
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New Mexico's state slogan is everybody is somebody in New Mexico.
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The New Mexico whiptail, an all-female species, is nicknamed the leaping lesbian lizard.
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Landlocked New Mexico still recorded a shark attack in 2005.
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