Map of Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 8.8° S, 125.9° E. It shares land borders with 1 country — Indonesia — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Timor-Leste is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Timor-Leste shares land frontiers with the following 1 country. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Timor-Leste covers about 14,874 km² (5,743 sq mi). That makes it the 155th-largest country in the world by area and the 41st-largest in Asia, larger by area than 8 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 1,391,221, the 154th-largest in the world and the 46th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Timor-Leste has an average population density of about 94 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 46th by population and 41st by area.

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

Timor-Leste carries the ISO country codes TL and TLS, dials on the international calling code +670 and uses the .tl internet domain.

Timor-Leste shares its land borders with 1 country, 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 Indonesia (capital Jakarta, about 284,438,782 people).

By area, Timor-Leste is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 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 8.8° S, 125.9° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Timor-Leste 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 Dili. 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.

Timor-Leste lies about 980 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Timor-Leste 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 Portuguese and Tetum, 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 +670 and websites commonly use the .tl internet domain.

In short, Timor-Leste is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 1 country. Its capital is Dili. Timor-Leste has a population of about 1,391,221 and covers around 14,874 km² (5,743 sq mi), ranking it 154th in the world by population and 155th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Timor-Leste.

The flag of Timor-Leste has a red field with two isosceles triangles which share a common base on the hoist end. The smaller black triangle, which bears a five-pointed white star at its center and spans one-third the width of the field, is superimposed on the larger yellow triangle that extends to the center of the field.

The flag of Timor-Leste 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.