Map of Myanmar

Myanmar is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 22.0° N, 98.0° E. It shares land borders with 5 countries — Bangladesh, China, India, Laos and Thailand — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Myanmar is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Myanmar covers about 676,578 km² (261,228 sq mi). That makes it the 39th-largest country in the world by area and the 10th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 39 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 51,316,756, the 29th-largest in the world and the 12th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 1.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Myanmar has an average population density of about 76 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 12th by population and 10th by area.

The seat of government is Naypyidaw, and the official currency is the Burmese kyat (MMK, Ks), and the main official language is Burmese. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+06:30.

Myanmar carries the ISO country codes MM and MMR, dials on the international calling code +95 and uses the .mm internet domain.

Myanmar 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 India (capital New Delhi, about 1,417,492,000 people), China (capital Beijing, about 1,408,280,000 people), Bangladesh (capital Dhaka, about 169,828,911 people), Thailand (capital Bangkok, about 65,859,640 people) and Laos (capital Vientiane, about 7,647,000 people).

By area, Myanmar is larger than 3 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 22.0° N, 98.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Myanmar within Asia. 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 Naypyidaw. 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.

Myanmar lies about 2,442 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.

Myanmar keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+06:30. 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 +06:30 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Burmese kyat (MMK, Ks).

The official language is Burmese, 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 +95 and websites commonly use the .mm internet domain.

In short, Myanmar is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 5 countries. Its capital is Naypyidaw. Myanmar has a population of about 51,316,756 and covers around 676,578 km² (261,228 sq mi), ranking it 29th in the world by population and 39th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Myanmar.

The flag of Myanmar is composed of three equal horizontal bands of yellow, green and red, with a large five-pointed white star superimposed at the center of the field.

The flag of Myanmar 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.