Country size comparison

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Turkmenistan is about 1.5 times smaller than Zambia.

Zambia is approximately 752,618 sq km, while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making Turkmenistan 64.85% the size of Zambia. Meanwhile, the population of Zambia is ~19.6 million people (14.0 million fewer people live in Turkmenistan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Zambia vs. Turkmenistan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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