Map of Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 17.1° N, 61.8° W. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Antigua and Barbuda is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Antigua and Barbuda is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Antigua and Barbuda covers about 442 km² (171 sq mi). That makes it the 184th-largest country in the world by area and the 19th-largest in North America, larger by area than 4 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 103,603, the 185th-largest in the world and the 21st-largest in North America, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Antigua and Barbuda has an average population density of about 234 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 21st by population and 19th by area.

The seat of government is Saint John's, and the official currency is the Eastern Caribbean dollar (XCD, $), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC-04:00.

Antigua and Barbuda carries the ISO country codes AG and ATG, dials on the international calling code +1268 and uses the .ag internet domain.

Antigua and Barbuda has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 17.1° N, 61.8° W places it about 1,893 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres, within the wider region of North America.

The interactive map above is centred on 17.1° N, 61.8° W and opens at zoom level 10, framing Antigua and Barbuda within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Saint John's. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Antigua and Barbuda lies about 1,893 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Antigua and Barbuda keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-04:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -04:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Eastern Caribbean dollar (XCD, $).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +1268 and websites commonly use the .ag internet domain.

In short, Antigua and Barbuda is an island nation in North America, with no land borders. Its capital is Saint John's. Antigua and Barbuda has a population of about 103,603 and covers around 442 km² (171 sq mi), ranking it 185th in the world by population and 184th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Antigua and Barbuda.

The flag of Antigua and Barbuda has a red field with an inverted isosceles triangle based on the top edge and spanning the height of the field. This triangle has three horizontal bands of black, light blue and white, with the light blue band half the height of the two other bands. The top half of a golden-yellow sun is situated in the lower two-third of the black band to depict a rising sun.

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