Map of North Macedonia

North Macedonia is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 41.8° N, 22.0° E. North Macedonia is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 5 neighbours — Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo and Serbia — with no coastline of its own. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, North Macedonia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

North Macedonia covers about 25,713 km² (9,928 sq mi). That makes it the 146th-largest country in the world by area and the 35th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 10 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 1,822,612, the 148th-largest in the world and the 34th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, North Macedonia has an average population density of about 71 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 34th by population and 35th by area.

The seat of government is Skopje, and the official currency is the Denar (MKD, den), and the main official language is Macedonian. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

North Macedonia carries the ISO country codes MK and MKD, dials on the international calling code +389 and uses the .mk internet domain.

North Macedonia 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 Greece (capital Athens, about 10,400,720 people), Serbia (capital Belgrade, about 6,567,783 people), Bulgaria (capital Sofia, about 6,437,360 people), Albania (capital Tirana, about 2,363,314 people) and Kosovo (capital Pristina, about 1,585,566 people).

By area, North Macedonia 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 41.8° N, 22.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing North Macedonia 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 Skopje. 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.

North Macedonia lies about 4,643 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.

North Macedonia 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 Denar (MKD, den).

The official language is Macedonian, 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 +389 and websites commonly use the .mk internet domain.

In short, North Macedonia is a landlocked country in Europe, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Skopje. North Macedonia has a population of about 1,822,612 and covers around 25,713 km² (9,928 sq mi), ranking it 148th in the world by population and 146th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for North Macedonia.

The flag of North Macedonia has a red field, at the center of which is a golden-yellow sun with eight broadening rays that extend to the edges of the field.

The flag of North Macedonia 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.