Map of Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 47.3° N, 9.5° E. Liechtenstein is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 2 neighbours — Austria and Switzerland — with no coastline of its own. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Liechtenstein is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Liechtenstein covers about 160 km² (62 sq mi). That makes it the 192nd-largest country in the world by area and the 42nd-largest in Europe, larger by area than 3 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 40,900, the 191st-largest in the world and the 42nd-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Liechtenstein has an average population density of about 256 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 42nd by population and 42nd by area.

The seat of government is Vaduz, and the official currency is the Swiss franc (CHF, Fr), and the main official language is German. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+01:00.

Liechtenstein carries the ISO country codes LI and LIE, dials on the international calling code +423 and uses the .li internet domain.

Liechtenstein 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 Austria (capital Vienna, about 9,200,931 people) and Switzerland (capital Bern, about 9,082,848 people).

By area, Liechtenstein 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 47.3° N, 9.5° E and opens at zoom level 10, framing Liechtenstein 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 Vaduz. 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.

Liechtenstein lies about 5,247 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As a landlocked country, every direction from its borders leads onto neighbouring land rather than the open sea.

Liechtenstein 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 Swiss franc (CHF, Fr).

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 +423 and websites commonly use the .li internet domain.

In short, Liechtenstein is a landlocked country in Europe, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Vaduz. Liechtenstein has a population of about 40,900 and covers around 160 km² (62 sq mi), ranking it 191st in the world by population and 192nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Liechtenstein.

The flag of Liechtenstein is composed of two equal horizontal bands of blue and red, with a golden-yellow crown on the hoist side of the blue band.

The flag of Liechtenstein 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.