Country size comparison

compared to

Madagascar is about 1.2 times bigger than Turkmenistan.

Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, while Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, making Madagascar 20% larger than Turkmenistan. Meanwhile, the population of Turkmenistan is ~5.6 million people (22.5 million more people live in Madagascar).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Turkmenistan vs. Madagascar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.