Country size comparison
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Turkmenistan is about 4.9 times bigger than South Korea.
South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making Turkmenistan 389% larger than South Korea. Meanwhile, the population of South Korea is ~51.8 million people (46.2 million fewer people live in Turkmenistan).
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