Map of Brunei

Brunei is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 4.5° N, 114.7° E. It shares land borders with 1 country — Malaysia — 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, Brunei is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Brunei covers about 5,765 km² (2,226 sq mi). That makes it the 166th-largest country in the world by area and the 46th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 3 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 455,500, the 171st-largest in the world and the 49th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Brunei has an average population density of about 79 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 49th by population and 46th by area.

The seat of government is Bandar Seri Begawan, and the official currency is the Brunei dollar (BND, $), and the main official language is Malay. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+08:00.

Brunei carries the ISO country codes BN and BRN, dials on the international calling code +673 and uses the .bn internet domain.

Brunei 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 Malaysia (capital Kuala Lumpur, about 34,231,700 people).

By area, Brunei 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 4.5° N, 114.7° E and opens at zoom level 8, framing Brunei 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 Bandar Seri Begawan. 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.

Brunei lies about 500 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.

Brunei keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+08:00. 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 +08:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

Brunei recognises more than one official currency: Brunei dollar (BND, $) and Singapore dollar (SGD, $).

The official language is Malay, 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 +673 and websites commonly use the .bn internet domain.

In short, Brunei is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 1 country. Its capital is Bandar Seri Begawan. Brunei has a population of about 455,500 and covers around 5,765 km² (2,226 sq mi), ranking it 171st in the world by population and 166th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Brunei.

The flag of Brunei has a yellow field with two adjoining diagonal bands of white and black that extend from the upper hoist side of the field to the lower fly side. The red emblem of Brunei is centered on the field.

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