Map of Malawi

Malawi is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 13.5° S, 34.0° E. Malawi is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 3 neighbours — Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia — with no coastline of its own. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Malawi is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Malawi covers about 118,484 km² (45,747 sq mi). That makes it the 98th-largest country in the world by area and the 36th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 18 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 20,734,262, the 62nd-largest in the world and the 21st-largest in Africa, accounting for about 1.4% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Malawi has an average population density of about 175 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 21st by population and 36th by area.

The seat of government is Lilongwe, and the official currency is the Malawian kwacha (MWK, MK), and the main official languages are English and Chewa. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Malawi carries the ISO country codes MW and MWI, dials on the international calling code +265 and uses the .mw internet domain.

Malawi 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 Tanzania (capital Dodoma, about 68,153,004 people), Mozambique (capital Maputo, about 34,090,466 people) and Zambia (capital Lusaka, about 19,693,423 people).

By area, Malawi 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 13.5° S, 34.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Malawi within Africa. 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 Lilongwe. 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.

Malawi lies about 1,498 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Malawi keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. 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 +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Malawian kwacha (MWK, MK).

The official languages are English and Chewa, 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 +265 and websites commonly use the .mw internet domain.

In short, Malawi is a landlocked country in Africa, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Lilongwe. Malawi has a population of about 20,734,262 and covers around 118,484 km² (45,747 sq mi), ranking it 62nd in the world by population and 98th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Malawi.

The flag of Malawi is composed of three equal horizontal bands of black, red and green. The top half of a red sun with thirty-one visible rays is centered in the black band.

The flag of Malawi 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.