Turkmenistan is about 1.3 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making Turkmenistan 74.84% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (32.7 million fewer people live in Turkmenistan).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Turkmenistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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