Country size comparison

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Turkey is about 12 times bigger than Latvia.

Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, making Turkey 1,113% larger than Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (81.2 million more people live in Turkey).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Latvia vs. Turkey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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