Map of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 7.0° N, 81.0° 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 Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Sri Lanka covers about 65,610 km² (25,332 sq mi). That makes it the 120th-largest country in the world by area and the 35th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 14 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 21,763,170, the 61st-largest in the world and the 24th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.5% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Sri Lanka has an average population density of about 332 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 24th by population and 35th by area.

The seat of government is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, and the official currency is the Sri Lankan rupee (LKR, Rs රු), and the main official languages are Sinhala and Tamil. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+05:30.

Sri Lanka carries the ISO country codes LK and LKA, dials on the international calling code +94 and uses the .lk, .இலங்கை, .ලංකා internet domain.

Sri Lanka 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 7.0° N, 81.0° E places it about 777 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Asia.

The interactive map above is centred on 7.0° N, 81.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Sri Lanka 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 Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte. 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.

Sri Lanka lies about 777 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.

Sri Lanka keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+05:30. 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 +05:30 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Sri Lankan rupee (LKR, Rs රු).

The official languages are Sinhala 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 +94 and websites commonly use the .lk, .இலங்கை, .ලංකා internet domain.

In short, Sri Lanka is an island nation in Asia, with no land borders. Its capital is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte. Sri Lanka has a population of about 21,763,170 and covers around 65,610 km² (25,332 sq mi), ranking it 61st in the world by population and 120th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Sri Lanka.

The flag of Sri Lanka features two large adjacent but separate rectangular areas, centered on a golden-yellow field. The smaller hoist-side rectangle is divided into two equal vertical bands of teal and orange, and the larger fly-side rectangle is maroon with a centered golden-yellow lion holding a Kastane sword in its right fore-paw and four golden-yellow Bo leaves, one in each corner.

The flag of Sri Lanka 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.