Turkmenistan is 48% larger than Malaysia.
Area: 329,847 km2 World Factbook
Population: 30,073,353 (July 2014) World Factbook
Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy located in Southeast Asia. It consists of thirteen states and three federal territories and has a total landmass of 329,847 square kilometres separated by the South China Sea into two similarly sized regions, Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia. Wikipedia
Area: 488,100 km2 World Factbook
Population: 5,171,943 (July 2014) World Factbook
Turkmenistan, formerly known as Turkmenia, is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Turkmenistan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the northeast and east, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest, and the Caspian Sea to the west. Wikipedia