Map of New Zealand

New Zealand is located in Oceania. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 41.0° S, 174.0° E. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within Oceania, a continent of 14 countries bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean, New Zealand is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

New Zealand is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

New Zealand covers about 268,838 km² (103,799 sq mi). That makes it the 75th-largest country in the world by area and the 3rd-largest in Oceania, larger by area than 11 of the continent’s 14 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 5,324,700, the 123rd-largest in the world and the 3rd-largest in Oceania, accounting for about 11% of the continent’s people. With that land area, New Zealand has an average population density of about 20 people per km². Among the 14 countries of Oceania it stands 3rd by population and 3rd by area.

The seat of government is Wellington, and the official currency is the New Zealand dollar (NZD, $), and the main official languages are English, Māori and New Zealand Sign Language. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes time zones UTC-11:00, UTC-10:00, UTC+12:00, UTC+12:45 and UTC+13:00.

New Zealand carries the ISO country codes NZ and NZL, dials on the international calling code +64 and uses the .nz internet domain.

New Zealand has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 41.0° S, 174.0° E places it about 4,551 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Oceania.

The interactive map above is centred on 41.0° S, 174.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing New Zealand within Oceania. 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 Wellington. 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.

New Zealand lies about 4,551 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

New Zealand spans 5 time zones, from UTC-11:00 to UTC+13:00, reflecting the spread of its territory across the globe. Each is expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); where a country covers several zones, the official local time can differ from one part of it to another.

The official currency is the New Zealand dollar (NZD, $).

The official languages are English, Māori and New Zealand Sign Language, 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 +64 and websites commonly use the .nz internet domain.

In short, New Zealand is an island nation in Oceania, with no land borders. Its capital is Wellington. New Zealand has a population of about 5,324,700 and covers around 268,838 km² (103,799 sq mi), ranking it 123rd in the world by population and 75th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for New Zealand.

The flag of New Zealand has a dark blue field with the flag of the United Kingdom — the Union Jack — in the canton and a representation of the Southern Cross constellation, made up of four five-pointed white-edged red stars, on the fly side of the field.

The flag of New Zealand 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.