Map of Indonesia

Indonesia is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 5.0° S, 120.0° E. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Indonesia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Indonesia shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Indonesia covers about 1,904,569 km² (735,358 sq mi). That makes it the 14th-largest country in the world by area and the 5th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 44 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 284,438,782, the 4th-largest in the world and the 3rd-largest in Asia, accounting for about 6.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Indonesia has an average population density of about 149 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 3rd by population and 5th by area.

The seat of government is Jakarta, and the official currency is the Indonesian rupiah (IDR, Rp), and the main official language is Indonesian. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes time zones UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00 and UTC+09:00.

Indonesia carries the ISO country codes ID and IDN, dials on the international calling code +62 and uses the .id internet domain.

Indonesia shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Malaysia (capital Kuala Lumpur, about 34,231,700 people), Papua New Guinea (capital Port Moresby, about 11,781,559 people) and Timor-Leste (capital Dili, about 1,391,221 people).

By area, Indonesia is larger than 3 of these neighbours and smaller than 0 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 5.0° S, 120.0° E and opens at zoom level 4, framing Indonesia 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 Jakarta. 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.

Indonesia lies about 555 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Indonesia spans 3 time zones, from UTC+07:00 to UTC+09:00, 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 Indonesian rupiah (IDR, Rp).

The official language is Indonesian, 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 +62 and websites commonly use the .id internet domain.

In short, Indonesia is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Jakarta. Indonesia has a population of about 284,438,782 and covers around 1,904,569 km² (735,358 sq mi), ranking it 4th in the world by population and 14th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Indonesia.

The flag of Indonesia is composed of two equal horizontal bands of red and white.

The flag of Indonesia 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.