Map of Singapore

Singapore is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 1.4° N, 103.8° 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 Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Singapore is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Singapore covers about 710 km² (274 sq mi). That makes it the 178th-largest country in the world by area and the 48th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 1 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 6,110,200, the 112th-largest in the world and the 35th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Singapore has an average population density of about 8,606 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 35th by population and 48th by area.

The seat of government is Singapore, and the official currency is the Singapore dollar (SGD, $), and the main official languages are English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+08:00.

Singapore carries the ISO country codes SG and SGP, dials on the international calling code +65 and uses the .sg, .新加坡, .சிங்கப்பூர் internet domain.

Singapore 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 1.4° N, 103.8° E places it about 152 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Asia.

The interactive map above is centred on 1.4° N, 103.8° E and opens at zoom level 9, framing Singapore within Asia. 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 Singapore. 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.

Singapore lies about 152 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.

Singapore keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+08:00. 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 +08:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Singapore dollar (SGD, $).

The official languages are English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil, 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 +65 and websites commonly use the .sg, .新加坡, .சிங்கப்பூர் internet domain.

In short, Singapore is an island nation in Asia, with no land borders. Its capital is Singapore. Singapore has a population of about 6,110,200 and covers around 710 km² (274 sq mi), ranking it 112th in the world by population and 178th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Singapore.

The flag of Singapore is composed of two equal horizontal bands of red and white. On the hoist side of the red band is a fly-side facing white crescent which partially encloses five small five-pointed white stars arranged in the shape of a pentagon.

The flag of Singapore 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.