Turkmenistan is about 35 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making Turkmenistan 2.85% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (136.4 million fewer people live in Turkmenistan).
This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Turkmenistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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