Country size comparison
compared to
South Korea is about 8 times smaller than Turkey.
Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, while South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, making South Korea 12.73% the size of Turkey. Meanwhile, the population of Turkey is ~83.0 million people (31.2 million fewer people live in South Korea).
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