Map of Nauru

Nauru is located in Oceania. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 0.5° S, 166.9° 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, Nauru is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Nauru covers about 21 km² (8.11 sq mi). That makes it the 195th-largest country in the world by area and the smallest country in Oceania by area.

It is home to a population of roughly 11,680, the 195th-largest in the world and the 13th-largest in Oceania, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Nauru has an average population density of about 556 people per km². Among the 14 countries of Oceania it stands 13th by population and 14th by area.

The seat of government is Yaren, and the official currency is the Australian dollar (AUD, $), and the main official languages are English and Nauru. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+12:00.

Nauru carries the ISO country codes NR and NRU, dials on the international calling code +674 and uses the .nr internet domain.

Nauru 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 0.5° S, 166.9° E places it about 59 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Oceania.

The interactive map above is centred on 0.5° S, 166.9° E and opens at zoom level 11, framing Nauru 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 Yaren. 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.

Nauru lies about 59 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Nauru 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 Australian dollar (AUD, $).

The official languages are English and Nauru, 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 +674 and websites commonly use the .nr internet domain.

In short, Nauru is an island nation in Oceania, with no land borders. Its capital is Yaren. Nauru has a population of about 11,680 and covers around 21 km² (8.11 sq mi), ranking it 195th in the world by population and 195th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Nauru.

The flag of Nauru has a dark blue field with a thin yellow horizontal band across the center and a large white twelve-pointed star beneath the horizontal band on the hoist side of the field.

The flag of Nauru 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.