Map of Palau

Palau is located in Oceania. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 7.5° N, 134.5° 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, Palau is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Palau covers about 459 km² (177 sq mi). That makes it the 182nd-largest country in the world by area and the 11th-largest in Oceania, larger by area than 3 of the continent’s 14 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 16,733, the 194th-largest in the world and the 12th-largest in Oceania, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Palau has an average population density of about 36 people per km². Among the 14 countries of Oceania it stands 12th by population and 11th by area.

The seat of government is Ngerulmud, and the official currency is the United States dollar (USD, $), and the main official languages are English and Palauan. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+09:00.

Palau carries the ISO country codes PW and PLW, dials on the international calling code +680 and uses the .pw internet domain.

Palau 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 7.5° N, 134.5° E places it about 832 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Oceania.

The interactive map above is centred on 7.5° N, 134.5° E and opens at zoom level 10, framing Palau 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 Ngerulmud. 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.

Palau lies about 832 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Palau keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+09:00. 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 +09:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the United States dollar (USD, $).

The official languages are English and Palauan, 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 +680 and websites commonly use the .pw internet domain.

In short, Palau is an island nation in Oceania, with no land borders. Its capital is Ngerulmud. Palau has a population of about 16,733 and covers around 459 km² (177 sq mi), ranking it 194th in the world by population and 182nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Palau.

The flag of Palau has a light blue field with a large golden-yellow circle that is offset slightly towards the hoist side of center.

The flag of Palau 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.