Country size comparison
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Turkmenistan is about 3 times smaller than Alaska.
Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making Turkmenistan 32.95% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (4.9 million more people live in Turkmenistan).
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