Map of Ecuador

Ecuador is located in South America. Its territory lies in the southern and western hemispheres, centred near 2.0° S, 77.5° W. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Colombia and Peru — and also has its own coastline. Within South America, a continent of 12 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Ecuador is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Ecuador shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Ecuador covers about 276,841 km² (106,889 sq mi). That makes it the 73rd-largest country in the world by area and the 9th-largest in South America, larger by area than 3 of the continent’s 12 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 18,103,660, the 70th-largest in the world and the 7th-largest in South America, accounting for about 4.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Ecuador has an average population density of about 65 people per km². Among the 12 countries of South America it stands 7th by population and 9th by area.

The seat of government is Quito, and the official currency is the United States dollar (USD, $), and the main official language is Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes time zones UTC-06:00 and UTC-05:00.

Ecuador carries the ISO country codes EC and ECU, dials on the international calling code +593 and uses the .ec internet domain.

Ecuador shares its land borders with 2 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 Colombia (capital Bogotá, about 53,057,212 people) and Peru (capital Lima, about 34,350,244 people).

By area, Ecuador is larger than 0 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 2.0° S, 77.5° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Ecuador 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 Quito. 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.

Ecuador lies about 222 km from the equator, in the southern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Ecuador spans 2 time zones, from UTC-06:00 to UTC-05:00, 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 United States dollar (USD, $).

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 +593 and websites commonly use the .ec internet domain.

In short, Ecuador is a coastal country in South America, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Quito. Ecuador has a population of about 18,103,660 and covers around 276,841 km² (106,889 sq mi), ranking it 70th in the world by population and 73rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Ecuador.

The flag of Ecuador is composed of the horizontal bands of yellow, blue and red, with the yellow band twice the height of the other two bands. The Ecuadorian coat of arms is superimposed in the center of the field.

The flag of Ecuador 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.