Map of Netherlands

Netherlands is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 52.5° N, 5.8° E. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Belgium and Germany — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Netherlands is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Netherlands shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Netherlands covers about 41,865 km² (16,164 sq mi). That makes it the 131st-largest country in the world by area and the 30th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 15 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 18,100,436, the 71st-largest in the world and the 10th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 2.4% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Netherlands has an average population density of about 432 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 10th by population and 30th by area.

The seat of government is Amsterdam, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official language is Dutch. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Netherlands carries the ISO country codes NL and NLD, dials on the international calling code +31 and uses the .nl internet domain.

Netherlands shares its land borders with 2 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) and Belgium (capital Brussels, about 11,825,551 people).

By area, Netherlands is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 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 52.5° N, 5.8° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Netherlands 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 Amsterdam. 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.

Netherlands lies about 5,828 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Netherlands 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 language is Dutch, 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 +31 and websites commonly use the .nl internet domain.

In short, Netherlands is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Amsterdam. Netherlands has a population of about 18,100,436 and covers around 41,865 km² (16,164 sq mi), ranking it 71st in the world by population and 131st by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Netherlands.

The flag of the Netherlands is composed of three equal horizontal bands of red, white and blue.

The flag of Netherlands 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.