Country size comparison
compared to
Turkmenistan is about 1.2 times bigger than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km,
while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making
Turkmenistan 21% larger than California.
Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people
(31.6 million fewer people live in Turkmenistan).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Turkmenistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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