Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 44.0° N, 18.0° E. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Bosnia and Herzegovina is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Bosnia and Herzegovina shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Bosnia and Herzegovina covers about 51,209 km² (19,772 sq mi). That makes it the 125th-largest country in the world by area and the 26th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 19 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 3,422,000, the 134th-largest in the world and the 28th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.5% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Bosnia and Herzegovina has an average population density of about 67 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 28th by population and 26th by area.

The seat of government is Sarajevo, and the official currency is the Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark (BAM, KM), and the main official languages are Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Bosnia and Herzegovina carries the ISO country codes BA and BIH, dials on the international calling code +387 and uses the .ba internet domain.

Bosnia and Herzegovina shares its land borders with 3 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 Serbia (capital Belgrade, about 6,567,783 people), Croatia (capital Zagreb, about 3,866,233 people) and Montenegro (capital Podgorica, about 623,327 people).

By area, Bosnia and Herzegovina is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 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 44.0° N, 18.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 Sarajevo. 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.

Bosnia and Herzegovina lies about 4,884 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark (BAM, KM).

The official languages are Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian, 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 +387 and websites commonly use the .ba internet domain.

In short, Bosnia and Herzegovina is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina has a population of about 3,422,000 and covers around 51,209 km² (19,772 sq mi), ranking it 134th in the world by population and 125th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina has a blue field, at the center of which is a large yellow hoist-side facing right-angled triangle that is based on the top edge and spans the height of the field. Adjacent to the hypotenuse of this triangle are nine adjoining five-pointed white stars with the top and bottom stars cut in half by the edges of the field.

The flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina 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.