Map of Switzerland

Switzerland is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 47.0° N, 8.0° E. Switzerland is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 5 neighbours — Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Liechtenstein — with no coastline of its own. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Switzerland is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Switzerland covers about 41,284 km² (15,940 sq mi). That makes it the 132nd-largest country in the world by area and the 31st-largest in Europe, larger by area than 14 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 9,082,848, the 100th-largest in the world and the 19th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 1.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Switzerland has an average population density of about 220 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 19th by population and 31st by area.

The seat of government is Bern, and the official currency is the Swiss franc (CHF, Fr.), and the main official languages are French, Swiss German, Italian and Romansh. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Switzerland carries the ISO country codes CH and CHE, dials on the international calling code +41 and uses the .ch internet domain.

Switzerland 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 Germany (capital Berlin, about 83,491,249 people), France (capital Paris, about 66,351,959 people), Italy (capital Rome, about 58,927,633 people), Austria (capital Vienna, about 9,200,931 people) and Liechtenstein (capital Vaduz, about 40,900 people).

By area, Switzerland 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 47.0° N, 8.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Switzerland 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 Bern. 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.

Switzerland lies about 5,217 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.

Switzerland 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 Swiss franc (CHF, Fr.).

The official languages are French, Swiss German, Italian and Romansh, 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 +41 and websites commonly use the .ch internet domain.

In short, Switzerland is a landlocked country in Europe, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Bern. Switzerland has a population of about 9,082,848 and covers around 41,284 km² (15,940 sq mi), ranking it 100th in the world by population and 132nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Switzerland.

The flag of Switzerland is square shaped. It features a white Swiss cross centered on a red field.

The flag of Switzerland 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.