Map of Kosovo

Kosovo is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 42.7° N, 21.2° E. Kosovo is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 4 neighbours — Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia — with no coastline of its own. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Kosovo is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Kosovo is surrounded by the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Kosovo covers about 10,908 km² (4,212 sq mi). That makes it the 161st-largest country in the world by area and the 38th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 7 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 1,585,566, the 152nd-largest in the world and the 35th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Kosovo has an average population density of about 145 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 35th by population and 38th by area.

The seat of government is Pristina, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official languages are Albanian and Serbian. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Kosovo carries the ISO country codes XK and UNK and dials on the international calling code +383.

Kosovo shares its land borders with 4 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 Serbia (capital Belgrade, about 6,567,783 people), Albania (capital Tirana, about 2,363,314 people), North Macedonia (capital Skopje, about 1,822,612 people) and Montenegro (capital Podgorica, about 623,327 people).

By area, Kosovo is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 4 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 42.7° N, 21.2° E and opens at zoom level 8, framing Kosovo within Europe. 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 Pristina. 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.

Kosovo lies about 4,736 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Kosovo keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+01:00. 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 +01:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Euro (EUR, €).

The official languages are Albanian and Serbian, 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 and the international dialling code is +383.

In short, Kosovo is a landlocked country in Europe, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Pristina. Kosovo has a population of about 1,585,566 and covers around 10,908 km² (4,212 sq mi), ranking it 152nd in the world by population and 161st by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Kosovo.

The flag of Kosovo has a dark blue field with a gold-colored silhouette of the country in the center, with six five-pointed white stars in a slight arc over it.

The flag of Kosovo 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.