Turkmenistan

Facts

What the numbers say about Turkmenistan

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 36.1× the size of Turkmenistan.
• Turkmenistan ranks 53rd of 239 by area but only 112th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 13 people per km², Turkmenistan is the 165th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 39°N is drawn about 1.7× too large in area, so Turkmenistan looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Turkmenistan's main territory stretches about 847 km north to south and 1,210 km east to west.
• Our measured 471,000 km² is 4.1% below Wikidata's official figure of 491,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

How Turkmenistan measures up

Turkmenistan holds 1.5% of the land area and 0.1% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In Central Asia it is the 2nd largest of 5.

Where Turkmenistan sits

• Turkmenistan's centre lies at 39.1°N, 59.5°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 4,350 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 35°N to 43°N, about 850 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Turkmenistan had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Turkmenistan would have 589.7 million people. It has 6.1 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Turkmenistan would have 1.8 million people. It has 6.1 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 34.1 million.

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