Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 1.2 times smaller than Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 82.75% the size of Turkmenistan.
Meanwhile, the population of Turkmenistan is ~5.6 million people
(31.6 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Turkmenistan
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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