Map of Ireland

Ireland is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 53.0° N, 8.0° W. It shares land borders with 1 country — United Kingdom — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Ireland is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Ireland covers about 70,273 km² (27,133 sq mi). That makes it the 118th-largest country in the world by area and the 22nd-largest in Europe, larger by area than 23 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 5,458,600, the 120th-largest in the world and the 25th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.7% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Ireland has an average population density of about 78 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 25th by population and 22nd by area.

The seat of government is Dublin, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official languages are English and Irish. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC.

Ireland carries the ISO country codes IE and IRL, dials on the international calling code +353 and uses the .ie internet domain.

Ireland 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 United Kingdom (capital London, about 69,281,437 people).

By area, Ireland 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 53.0° N, 8.0° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Ireland 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 Dublin. 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.

Ireland lies about 5,883 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.

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

The official currency is the Euro (EUR, €).

The official languages are English and Irish, 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 +353 and websites commonly use the .ie internet domain.

In short, Ireland is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 1 country. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland has a population of about 5,458,600 and covers around 70,273 km² (27,133 sq mi), ranking it 120th in the world by population and 118th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Ireland.

The flag of Ireland is composed of three equal vertical bands of green, white and orange.

The flag of Ireland 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.