The state of New Mexico is situated in the southwestern province of United States. New Mexico is also considered to be one among the Mountain States and got entered in 47th place to the union on the 6th of January, 1912. The state is by area the 5th and 36th popular state of the United States of America. New Mexico was declared to be in the colonial epoch being a part of Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of the New Spain. Then it got aligned to Mexico which was independent by then and became a U.S. territory and finally a U.S. State.

The state of New Mexico is basically Spanish and is alleged to have got the name from Mexico nation. This region got recorded as the New Mexico in the years of 1563 and 1581 by explorers from Spain. The state was also a part of Federal Republic of Mexico and sovereign Mexican Empire for a period of 27 years starting from 1821 to 1848.