Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 12 times smaller than Turkey.

Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 8.24% the size of Turkey. Meanwhile, the population of Turkey is ~85.9 million people (84.0 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Turkey vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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