Map of United Kingdom

United Kingdom is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 54.0° N, 2.0° W. It shares land borders with 1 country — Ireland — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, United Kingdom is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

United Kingdom shares land frontiers with the following 1 country. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

United Kingdom covers about 244,376 km² (94,354 sq mi). That makes it the 78th-largest country in the world by area and the 11th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 34 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 69,281,437, the 20th-largest in the world and the 3rd-largest in Europe, accounting for about 9.4% of the continent’s people. With that land area, United Kingdom has an average population density of about 284 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 3rd by population and 11th by area.

The seat of government is London, and the official currency is the British pound (GBP, £), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes time zones UTC-08:00, UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00, UTC, UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00 and UTC+06:00.

United Kingdom carries the ISO country codes GB and GBR, dials on the international calling code +44 and uses the .uk internet domain.

United Kingdom 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 Ireland (capital Dublin, about 5,458,600 people).

By area, United Kingdom is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 0 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 54.0° N, 2.0° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing United Kingdom 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 London. 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.

United Kingdom lies about 5,994 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

United Kingdom spans 9 time zones, from UTC-08:00 to UTC+06:00, reflecting the spread of its territory across the globe. Each is expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); where a country covers several zones, the official local time can differ from one part of it to another.

The official currency is the British pound (GBP, £).

The official language is English, 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 +44 and websites commonly use the .uk internet domain.

In short, United Kingdom is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 1 country. Its capital is London. United Kingdom has a population of about 69,281,437 and covers around 244,376 km² (94,354 sq mi), ranking it 20th in the world by population and 78th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for United Kingdom.

The flag of the United Kingdom — the Union Jack — has a blue field. It features the white-edged red cross of Saint George superimposed on the diagonal red cross of Saint Patrick which is superimposed on the diagonal white cross of Saint Andrew.

The flag of United Kingdom 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.