Country size comparison
compared to
Turkmenistan is about 2.5 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, making Turkmenistan 40.04% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (51.9 million fewer people live in Turkmenistan).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Turkmenistan
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