Turkmenistan covers 488,100 km² on the new Equal Earth world map, 0.4% of all land on Earth. It ranks 52nd of 237 countries worldwide and 13th in Asia. At 39° latitude the old Mercator map inflates area by about 1.7×, drawing it closer to 811,027 km², a difference of roughly 66%.
For scale, Turkmenistan is roughly the same size as Cameroon (475,650 km²).
You could fit 3 of Bangladesh inside Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan: key figures
| True area | 488,100 km² |
| World rank | 52nd |
| Share of world land | 0.4% |
| Rank in Asia | 13th / 52 |
| Old-map (Mercator) inflation | 1.7× |
| Apparent size on Mercator | 811,027 km² |
Largest countries in Asia (true area)
| Asia | |
|---|
| China | 9,596,960 km² |
| India | 3,287,263 km² |
| Kazakhstan | 2,724,910 km² |
| Saudi Arabia | 2,149,690 km² |
| Indonesia | 1,904,569 km² |
| Iran | 1,648,195 km² |