Map of Dominica

Dominica is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 15.4° N, 61.3° 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, Dominica is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Dominica covers about 751 km² (290 sq mi). That makes it the 176th-largest country in the world by area and the 17th-largest in North America, larger by area than 6 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 67,408, the 188th-largest in the world and the 22nd-largest in North America, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Dominica has an average population density of about 90 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 22nd by population and 17th by area.

The seat of government is Roseau, 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.

Dominica carries the ISO country codes DM and DMA, dials on the international calling code +1767 and uses the .dm internet domain.

Dominica 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 15.4° N, 61.3° W places it about 1,711 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres, within the wider region of North America.

The interactive map above is centred on 15.4° N, 61.3° W and opens at zoom level 9, framing Dominica 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 Roseau. 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.

Dominica lies about 1,711 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.

Dominica 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 +1767 and websites commonly use the .dm internet domain.

In short, Dominica is an island nation in North America, with no land borders. Its capital is Roseau. Dominica has a population of about 67,408 and covers around 751 km² (290 sq mi), ranking it 188th in the world by population and 176th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Dominica.

The flag of Dominica has a green field with a large centered tricolor cross. The vertical and horizontal parts of the cross each comprise three bands of yellow, black and white. A red circle, bearing a hoist-side facing purple Sisserou parrot standing on a twig and encircled by ten five-pointed yellow-edged green stars, is superimposed at the center of the cross.

The flag of Dominica 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.