Map of Laos

Laos is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 18.0° N, 105.0° E. Laos is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 5 neighbours — Cambodia, China, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam — with no coastline of its own. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Laos is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Laos is surrounded by the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Laos covers about 236,800 km² (91,429 sq mi). That makes it the 82nd-largest country in the world by area and the 22nd-largest in Asia, larger by area than 27 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 7,647,000, the 103rd-largest in the world and the 32nd-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Laos has an average population density of about 32 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 32nd by population and 22nd by area.

The seat of government is Vientiane, and the official currency is the Lao kip (LAK, ₭), and the main official language is Lao. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+07:00.

Laos carries the ISO country codes LA and LAO, dials on the international calling code +856 and uses the .la internet domain.

Laos shares its land borders with 5 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 China (capital Beijing, about 1,408,280,000 people), Vietnam (capital Hanoi, about 101,343,800 people), Thailand (capital Bangkok, about 65,859,640 people), Myanmar (capital Naypyidaw, about 51,316,756 people) and Cambodia (capital Phnom Penh, about 17,577,760 people).

By area, Laos is larger than 1 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 18.0° N, 105.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Laos 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 Vientiane. 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.

Laos lies about 1,998 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.

Laos keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+07:00. 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 +07:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Lao kip (LAK, ₭).

The official language is Lao, 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 +856 and websites commonly use the .la internet domain.

In short, Laos is a landlocked country in Asia, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Vientiane. Laos has a population of about 7,647,000 and covers around 236,800 km² (91,429 sq mi), ranking it 103rd in the world by population and 82nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Laos.

The flag of Laos is composed of three horizontal bands of red, blue and red. The blue band is twice the height of the red bands and bears a white circle at its center.

The flag of Laos 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.