Map of Marshall Islands

Marshall Islands is located in Oceania. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 9.0° N, 168.0° 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, Marshall Islands is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Marshall Islands covers about 181 km² (70 sq mi). That makes it the 191st-largest country in the world by area and the 12th-largest in Oceania, larger by area than 2 of the continent’s 14 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 42,418, the 190th-largest in the world and the 11th-largest in Oceania, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Marshall Islands has an average population density of about 234 people per km². Among the 14 countries of Oceania it stands 11th by population and 12th by area.

The seat of government is Majuro, and the official currency is the United States dollar (USD, $), and the main official languages are English and Marshallese. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+12:00.

Marshall Islands carries the ISO country codes MH and MHL, dials on the international calling code +692 and uses the .mh internet domain.

Marshall Islands 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 9.0° N, 168.0° E places it about 999 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Oceania.

The interactive map above is centred on 9.0° N, 168.0° E and opens at zoom level 10, framing Marshall Islands 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 Majuro. 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.

Marshall Islands lies about 999 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.

Marshall Islands keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+12:00. 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 +12:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the United States dollar (USD, $).

The official languages are English and Marshallese, 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 +692 and websites commonly use the .mh internet domain.

In short, Marshall Islands is an island nation in Oceania, with no land borders. Its capital is Majuro. Marshall Islands has a population of about 42,418 and covers around 181 km² (70 sq mi), ranking it 190th in the world by population and 191st by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Marshall Islands.

The flag of Marshall Islands has a blue field with two broadening adjacent diagonal bands of orange and white that extend from the lower hoist-side corner to the upper fly-side corner of the field. A large white star with twenty-four rays — four large rays at the cardinal points and twenty smaller rays — is situated in the upper hoist-side corner above the diagonal bands.

The flag of Marshall Islands 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.