Country size comparison
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Turkmenistan is about 4 times bigger than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making Turkmenistan 305% larger than North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (20.3 million fewer people live in Turkmenistan).
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