Map of Australia

Australia is located in Oceania. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 27.0° S, 133.0° E. 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 Oceania, a continent of 14 countries bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean, Australia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Australia covers about 7,692,024 km² (2,969,907 sq mi). That makes it the 6th-largest country in the world by area and the largest country in Oceania by area.

It is home to a population of roughly 27,536,874, the 54th-largest in the world and the 1st-largest in Oceania, accounting for about 58% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Australia has an average population density of about 4 people per km². Among the 14 countries of Oceania it stands 1st by population and 1st by area.

The seat of government is Canberra, and the official currency is the Australian dollar (AUD, $), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes time zones UTC+05:00, UTC+06:30, UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and UTC+11:30.

Australia carries the ISO country codes AU and AUS, dials on the international calling code +61 and uses the .au internet domain.

Australia 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 27.0° S, 133.0° E places it about 2,997 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Oceania.

The interactive map above is centred on 27.0° S, 133.0° E and opens at zoom level 3, framing Australia within Oceania. 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 Canberra. 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.

Australia lies about 2,997 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Australia spans 8 time zones, from UTC+05:00 to UTC+11:30, reflecting the spread of its territory across the globe. Each is expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); where a country covers several zones, the official local time can differ from one part of it to another.

The official currency is the Australian dollar (AUD, $).

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 +61 and websites commonly use the .au internet domain.

In short, Australia is an island nation in Oceania, with no land borders. Its capital is Canberra. Australia has a population of about 27,536,874 and covers around 7,692,024 km² (2,969,907 sq mi), ranking it 54th in the world by population and 6th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Australia.

The flag of Australia has a dark blue field. It features the flag of the United Kingdom — the Union Jack — in the canton, beneath which is a large white seven-pointed star. A representation of the Southern Cross constellation, made up of one small five-pointed and four larger seven-pointed white stars, is situated on the fly side of the field.

The flag of Australia is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.