Country size comparison
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Turkmenistan is about 20 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making Turkmenistan 5.09% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Turkmenistan).
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