Country size comparison
South Africa
compared to
Turkmenistan
South Africa is about 2.5 times bigger than Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 150% larger than Turkmenistan. Meanwhile, the population of Turkmenistan is ~5.6 million people (51.9 million more people live in South Africa).
We have positioned the outline of Turkmenistan near the middle of South Africa.
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This to-scale comparison of
Turkmenistan
vs.
South Africa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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