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POSTAL ABBREVIATION: NM
CAPITAL CITY: Santa Fe
NICKNAME: Land of
Enchantment
RESIDENTS ARE CALLED: New
Mexicans
MOTTO: It grows as it
goes
SONG: O, Fair New Mexico
BIRD: Roadrunner
INSECT: Tarantula Hawk
Wasp
FLOWER: Yucca
TREE: Pinon
LARGEST CITY: Albuquerque
HIGHEST POINT: Wheeler
Peak (13,161 ft)
BECAME A STATE ON:
January 6, 1912 (47th state)
# OF US REPRESENTATIVES:
3
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