Map of Montenegro

Montenegro is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 42.5° N, 19.3° E. It shares land borders with 5 countries — Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Montenegro is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Montenegro shares land frontiers with the following 5 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Montenegro covers about 13,812 km² (5,333 sq mi). That makes it the 157th-largest country in the world by area and the 37th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 8 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 623,327, the 166th-largest in the world and the 38th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Montenegro has an average population density of about 45 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 38th by population and 37th by area.

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

Montenegro carries the ISO country codes ME and MNE, dials on the international calling code +382 and uses the .me internet domain.

Montenegro shares its land borders with 5 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 Serbia (capital Belgrade, about 6,567,783 people), Croatia (capital Zagreb, about 3,866,233 people), Bosnia and Herzegovina (capital Sarajevo, about 3,422,000 people), Albania (capital Tirana, about 2,363,314 people) and Kosovo (capital Pristina, about 1,585,566 people).

By area, Montenegro is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 4 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 42.5° N, 19.3° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Montenegro 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 Podgorica. 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.

Montenegro lies about 4,718 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.

Montenegro 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 Montenegrin, 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 +382 and websites commonly use the .me internet domain.

In short, Montenegro is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Podgorica. Montenegro has a population of about 623,327 and covers around 13,812 km² (5,333 sq mi), ranking it 166th in the world by population and 157th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Montenegro.

The flag of Montenegro features a large red central rectangular area surrounded by a golden-yellow border. The coat of arms of Montenegro is centered in the red rectangle.

The flag of Montenegro 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.