Map of Bahrain

Bahrain is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 26.0° N, 50.5° 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 Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Bahrain is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Bahrain covers about 765 km² (295 sq mi). That makes it the 175th-largest country in the world by area and the 47th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 2 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 1,594,654, the 151st-largest in the world and the 44th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Bahrain has an average population density of about 2,085 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 44th by population and 47th by area.

The seat of government is Manama, and the official currency is the Bahraini dinar (BHD, .د.ب), and the main official language is Arabic. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+03:00.

Bahrain carries the ISO country codes BH and BHR, dials on the international calling code +973 and uses the .bh internet domain.

Bahrain 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 26.0° N, 50.5° E places it about 2,886 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Asia.

The interactive map above is centred on 26.0° N, 50.5° E and opens at zoom level 9, framing Bahrain within Asia. 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 Manama. 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.

Bahrain lies about 2,886 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Bahrain keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+03:00. 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 +03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Bahraini dinar (BHD, .د.ب).

The official language is Arabic, 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 right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +973 and websites commonly use the .bh internet domain.

In short, Bahrain is an island nation in Asia, with no land borders. Its capital is Manama. Bahrain has a population of about 1,594,654 and covers around 765 km² (295 sq mi), ranking it 151st in the world by population and 175th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Bahrain.

The flag of Bahrain has a red field. On the hoist side, it features a white vertical band that spans about one-third the width of the field and is separated from the rest of the field by five adjoining fly-side pointing white isosceles triangles that serve as a serrated line.

The flag of Bahrain 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.