Country size comparison
compared to
Turkmenistan is around the same size as Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making Turkmenistan 5% larger than Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (4.0 million fewer people live in Turkmenistan).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Turkmenistan
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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