Map of Eswatini

Eswatini is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 26.5° S, 31.5° E. Eswatini is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 2 neighbours — Mozambique and South Africa — with no coastline of its own. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Eswatini is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Landlocked Eswatini is surrounded by the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Eswatini covers about 17,364 km² (6,704 sq mi). That makes it the 154th-largest country in the world by area and the 48th-largest in Africa, larger by area than 6 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 1,235,549, the 158th-largest in the world and the 49th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Eswatini has an average population density of about 71 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 49th by population and 48th by area.

The seat of government is Mbabane, and the official currency is the Swazi lilangeni (SZL, L), and the main official languages are English and Swazi. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Eswatini carries the ISO country codes SZ and SWZ, dials on the international calling code +268 and uses the .sz internet domain.

Eswatini 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 South Africa (capital Pretoria, about 63,100,945 people) and Mozambique (capital Maputo, about 34,090,466 people).

By area, Eswatini 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 26.5° S, 31.5° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Eswatini within Africa. 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 Mbabane. 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.

Eswatini lies about 2,942 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Eswatini keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. 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 +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

Eswatini recognises more than one official currency: Swazi lilangeni (SZL, L) and South African rand (ZAR, R).

The official languages are English and Swazi, 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 +268 and websites commonly use the .sz internet domain.

In short, Eswatini is a landlocked country in Africa, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Mbabane. Eswatini has a population of about 1,235,549 and covers around 17,364 km² (6,704 sq mi), ranking it 158th in the world by population and 154th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Eswatini.

The flag of Eswatini is composed of three horizontal bands — a large central yellow-edged red band, and a light blue band above and beneath the red band. The red band is three times the height of the blue bands and bears a centered emblem made up of a large black and white Nguni shield covering two spears and a staff decorated with feather tassels, all placed horizontally.

The flag of Eswatini 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.