Country size comparison
compared to
Turkmenistan is about 3.4 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making
Turkmenistan 237% larger than Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(2.6 million more people live in Turkmenistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Turkmenistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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