Map of Tuvalu

Tuvalu is located in Oceania. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 8.0° S, 178.0° 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 Oceania, a continent of 14 countries bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean, Tuvalu is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Tuvalu covers about 26 km² (10 sq mi). That makes it the 194th-largest country in the world by area and the 13th-largest in Oceania, larger by area than 1 of the continent’s 14 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 10,643, the 196th-largest in the world and the 14th-largest in Oceania, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Tuvalu has an average population density of about 409 people per km². Among the 14 countries of Oceania it stands 14th by population and 13th by area.

The seat of government is Funafuti, and the official currency is the Australian dollar (AUD, $), and the main official languages are English and Tuvaluan. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+12:00.

Tuvalu carries the ISO country codes TV and TUV, dials on the international calling code +688 and uses the .tv internet domain.

Tuvalu 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 8.0° S, 178.0° E places it about 888 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Oceania.

The interactive map above is centred on 8.0° S, 178.0° E and opens at zoom level 11, framing Tuvalu 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 Funafuti. 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.

Tuvalu lies about 888 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Tuvalu keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+12:00. 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 +12:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

Tuvalu recognises more than one official currency: Australian dollar (AUD, $) and Tuvaluan dollar (TVD, $).

The official languages are English and Tuvaluan, 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 +688 and websites commonly use the .tv internet domain.

In short, Tuvalu is an island nation in Oceania, with no land borders. Its capital is Funafuti. Tuvalu has a population of about 10,643 and covers around 26 km² (10 sq mi), ranking it 196th in the world by population and 194th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Tuvalu.

The flag of Tuvalu has a light blue field with the flag of the United Kingdom — the Union Jack — in the canton. A representation of the country's nine Islands using nine five-pointed yellow stars is situated in the fly half of the field.

The flag of Tuvalu 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.