Turkmenistan is about 1.4 times smaller than Texas.

Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making Turkmenistan 71.99% the size of Texas. Meanwhile, the population of Texas is ~31.7 million people (24.1 million fewer people live in Turkmenistan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Texas vs. Turkmenistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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