Country size comparison
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Turkmenistan is about 3.4 times smaller than Iran.
Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making Turkmenistan 29.61% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (81.1 million fewer people live in Turkmenistan).
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Moving from Turkmenistan to Iran · UN DESA 2020
1,954 people born in Turkmenistan live in Iran.
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