Country size comparison
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Turkmenistan is about 1.3 times bigger than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making Turkmenistan 29% larger than Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (118.6 million fewer people live in Turkmenistan).
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Moving from Turkmenistan to Japan · OECD 2023
80 people moved from Turkmenistan to Japan.
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