Kazakhstan is 8.7 times larger than New Mexico (USA).
Area: 2,724,900 km2 World Factbook
Population: 17,948,816 (July 2014) World Factbook
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a contiguous transcontinental country in Central Asia, with its smaller part west of the Ural River in Europe. Wikipedia
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. It is usually considered one of the Mountain States. New Mexico is the 5th most extensive, the 36th most populous, and the 6th least densely populated of the 50 United States. Wikipedia