Country size comparison

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Turkey is about 12 times smaller than China.

China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, making Turkey 8.16% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.3 billion fewer people live in Turkey).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of China vs. Turkey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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