Map of Kiribati

Kiribati is located in Oceania. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 1.4° N, 173.0° E. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within Oceania, a continent of 14 countries bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean, Kiribati is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Kiribati is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Kiribati covers about 811 km² (313 sq mi). That makes it the 174th-largest country in the world by area and the 8th-largest in Oceania, larger by area than 6 of the continent’s 14 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 120,740, the 181st-largest in the world and the 8th-largest in Oceania, accounting for about 0.3% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Kiribati has an average population density of about 149 people per km². Among the 14 countries of Oceania it stands 8th by population and 8th by area.

The seat of government is South Tarawa, and the official currency is the Australian dollar (AUD, $), and the main official languages are English and Gilbertese. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes time zones UTC+12:00, UTC+13:00 and UTC+14:00.

Kiribati carries the ISO country codes KI and KIR, dials on the international calling code +686 and uses the .ki internet domain.

Kiribati has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 1.4° N, 173.0° E places it about 157 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Oceania.

The interactive map above is centred on 1.4° N, 173.0° E and opens at zoom level 9, framing Kiribati within Oceania. 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 South Tarawa. 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.

Kiribati lies about 157 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Kiribati spans 3 time zones, from UTC+12:00 to UTC+14:00, 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.

Kiribati recognises more than one official currency: Australian dollar (AUD, $) and Kiribati dollar (KID, $).

The official languages are English and Gilbertese, 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 +686 and websites commonly use the .ki internet domain.

In short, Kiribati is an island nation in Oceania, with no land borders. Its capital is South Tarawa. Kiribati has a population of about 120,740 and covers around 811 km² (313 sq mi), ranking it 181st in the world by population and 174th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Kiribati.

The flag of Kiribati is divided into two halves. While the upper half has a red field, at the center of which is a yellow frigate bird flying over the top half of a rising yellow sun with seventeen visible rays, the lower half is composed of six horizontal wavy bands of white alternating with blue to depict the ocean.

The flag of Kiribati 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.