Country size comparison
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Turkey is about 8 times bigger than South Korea.
South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, while Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, making Turkey 686% larger than South Korea. Meanwhile, the population of South Korea is ~51.7 million people (34.2 million more people live in Turkey).
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