Map of Germany

Germany is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 51.0° N, 9.0° E. It shares land borders with 9 countries — Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Germany is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Germany shares land frontiers with the following 9 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Germany covers about 357,114 km² (137,882 sq mi). That makes it the 63rd-largest country in the world by area and the 7th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 38 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 83,491,249, the 19th-largest in the world and the 2nd-largest in Europe, accounting for about 11% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Germany has an average population density of about 234 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 2nd by population and 7th by area.

The seat of government is Berlin, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official language is German. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Germany carries the ISO country codes DE and DEU, dials on the international calling code +49 and uses the .de internet domain.

Germany shares its land borders with 9 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 France (capital Paris, about 66,351,959 people), Poland (capital Warsaw, about 37,392,000 people), Netherlands (capital Amsterdam, about 18,100,436 people), Belgium (capital Brussels, about 11,825,551 people), Czechia (capital Prague, about 10,882,341 people), Austria (capital Vienna, about 9,200,931 people), Switzerland (capital Bern, about 9,082,848 people), Denmark (capital Copenhagen, about 6,011,488 people) and Luxembourg (capital Luxembourg, about 681,973 people).

By area, Germany is larger than 8 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 51.0° N, 9.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Germany 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 Berlin. 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.

Germany lies about 5,661 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.

Germany 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 Euro (EUR, €).

The official language is German, 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 +49 and websites commonly use the .de internet domain.

In short, Germany is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 9 countries. Its capital is Berlin. Germany has a population of about 83,491,249 and covers around 357,114 km² (137,882 sq mi), ranking it 19th in the world by population and 63rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Germany.

The flag of Germany is composed of three equal horizontal bands of black, red and gold.

The flag of Germany 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.