Map of Luxembourg

Luxembourg is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 49.8° N, 6.2° E. Luxembourg is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 3 neighbours — Belgium, France and Germany — with no coastline of its own. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Luxembourg is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Luxembourg is surrounded by the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Luxembourg covers about 2,586 km² (998 sq mi). That makes it the 170th-largest country in the world by area and the 39th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 6 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 681,973, the 165th-largest in the world and the 37th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Luxembourg has an average population density of about 264 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 37th by population and 39th by area.

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

Luxembourg carries the ISO country codes LU and LUX, dials on the international calling code +352 and uses the .lu internet domain.

Luxembourg 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 Germany (capital Berlin, about 83,491,249 people), France (capital Paris, about 66,351,959 people) and Belgium (capital Brussels, about 11,825,551 people).

By area, Luxembourg is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 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 49.8° N, 6.2° E and opens at zoom level 8, framing Luxembourg 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 Luxembourg. 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.

Luxembourg lies about 5,522 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.

Luxembourg 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 German, French and Luxembourgish, 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 +352 and websites commonly use the .lu internet domain.

In short, Luxembourg is a landlocked country in Europe, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Luxembourg. Luxembourg has a population of about 681,973 and covers around 2,586 km² (998 sq mi), ranking it 165th in the world by population and 170th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Luxembourg.

The flag of Luxembourg is composed of three equal horizontal bands of red, white and light blue.

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