Country size comparison
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Turkmenistan is about 2.6 times bigger than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making Turkmenistan 160% larger than Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (15.9 million fewer people live in Turkmenistan).
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