How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-09-26; names, ids and accepted spellings are Natural Earth's. Licence: public domain (work of the United States government, 17 U.S.C. 105): https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2023/TGRSHP2023_TechDoc_Ch1.pdf; public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)
The drawing: Drawn for this site from U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary file cb_2023_us_county_5m (scale 1:5,000,000), https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2023/shp/cb_2023_us_county_5m.zip, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary file cb_2023_us_state_5m (scale 1:5,000,000), https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2023/shp/cb_2023_us_state_5m.zip, downloaded 2026-09-19 and from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Albers equal-area conic projection, central meridian 106°W, standard parallels 32.3°N and 36.1°N. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (work of the United States government, 17 U.S.C. 105): https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2023/TGRSHP2023_TechDoc_Ch1.pdf; public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)
How it works
This blank map of New Mexico shows all 33 counties of New Mexico, from Bernalillo to Valencia, with Santa Fe, the capital, in Santa Fe County; with Borders off it prints the plain outline.
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Blank, numbered or named
Blank prints the 33 shapes with nothing written; Numbered puts 1 on Bernalillo and 33 on Valencia, in alphabetical order; Named prints every name, and Print the answer key gives the list.
New Mexico outline map with every county
Catron County, in the west, is the largest county; Los Alamos, where the laboratory stands, is the smallest. Its neighbors, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and Mexico, are drawn around it without numbers.
Santa Fe is the oldest state capital in the United States; ask students to find it first.
Questions and answers
How many counties does New Mexico have?
Thirty-three in the Census Bureau count, from Bernalillo County to Valencia County in alphabetical order.
What county is Santa Fe in?
Santa Fe stands in Santa Fe County, which is number 27 on the numbered sheet. Have students find it first and write Santa Fe beside it.
Which is the smallest county in New Mexico?
Los Alamos County, in the north around the national laboratory. Catron County is the largest.
Which county of New Mexico has the most people?
Bernalillo County, around Albuquerque, has more people than any other county in New Mexico, while the capital, Santa Fe, is in Santa Fe County.