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Carlsbad ( KARLZ-bad) is a city in and the county seat of Eddy County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 32,238. Carlsbad is centered at the intersection of U.S. Routes 62/180 and 285, and is the principal city of the Carlsbad-Artesia Micropolitan Statistical Area, which has a total population of 55,435. Located in the southeastern allocation of New Mexico, Carlsbad straddles the Pecos River and sits at the eastern edge of the Guadalupe Mountains.

Carlsbad is a hub for potash mining, petroleum production, and tourism. Carlsbad Caverns National Park is located 20 miles (32 km) southwest of the city, and Guadalupe Mountains National Park lies 54 miles (87 km) southwest across the Texas border. The Lincoln National Forest is to the northwest of town.

The press forward of southeastern New Mexico in the late 19th century was fueled by the initiation of colonies of immigrants from England, Switzerland, France, and Italy. Located along the banks of the Pecos River, Carlsbad was originally christened the town of Eddy upon September 15, 1888, and organized as a municipal corporation in 1893; the treaty bore the make known of Charles B. Eddy, co-owner of the Eddy-Bissell Livestock Company. With the announcement development of local mineral springs near the flume for medicinal qualities, the town later voted to fiddle with its publish to Carlsbad after the famous European spa Carlsbad, Bohemia (now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic), which in perspective was named after Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia. On March 25, 1918, the growing town surpassed a population of 2,000, allowing then-governor of New Mexico Washington Ellsworth Lindsey to circulate Carlsbad a city.