Map of Colombia

Colombia is located in South America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 4.0° N, 72.0° W. It shares land borders with 5 countries — Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela — and also has its own coastline. Within South America, a continent of 12 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Colombia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Colombia shares land frontiers with the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Colombia covers about 1,141,748 km² (440,831 sq mi). That makes it the 25th-largest country in the world by area and the 4th-largest in South America, larger by area than 8 of the continent’s 12 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 53,057,212, the 27th-largest in the world and the 2nd-largest in South America, accounting for about 12% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Colombia has an average population density of about 46 people per km². Among the 12 countries of South America it stands 2nd by population and 4th by area.

The seat of government is Bogotá, and the official currency is the Colombian peso (COP, $), and the main official language is Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-05:00.

Colombia carries the ISO country codes CO and COL, dials on the international calling code +57 and uses the .co internet domain.

Colombia shares its land borders with 5 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 Brazil (capital Brasília, about 213,421,037 people), Peru (capital Lima, about 34,350,244 people), Venezuela (capital Caracas, about 28,517,000 people), Ecuador (capital Quito, about 18,103,660 people) and Panama (capital Panama City, about 4,064,780 people).

By area, Colombia is larger than 3 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 4.0° N, 72.0° W and opens at zoom level 4, framing Colombia within South America. 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 Bogotá. 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.

Colombia lies about 444 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.

Colombia keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-05:00. 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 -05:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Colombian peso (COP, $).

The official language is Spanish, 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 +57 and websites commonly use the .co internet domain.

In short, Colombia is a coastal country in South America, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Bogotá. Colombia has a population of about 53,057,212 and covers around 1,141,748 km² (440,831 sq mi), ranking it 27th in the world by population and 25th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Colombia.

The flag of Colombia is composed of three horizontal bands of yellow, blue and red, with the yellow band twice the height of the other two bands.

The flag of Colombia 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.