Map of Nepal

Nepal is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 28.0° N, 84.0° E. Nepal is landlocked, enclosed on every side by its 2 neighbours — China and India — with no coastline of its own. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Nepal is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Nepal covers about 147,181 km² (56,827 sq mi). That makes it the 93rd-largest country in the world by area and the 27th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 22 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 29,911,840, the 51st-largest in the world and the 20th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.6% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Nepal has an average population density of about 203 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 20th by population and 27th by area.

The seat of government is Kathmandu, and the official currency is the Nepalese rupee (NPR, ₨), and the main official language is Nepali. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+05:45.

Nepal carries the ISO country codes NP and NPL, dials on the international calling code +977 and uses the .np internet domain.

Nepal 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 India (capital New Delhi, about 1,417,492,000 people) and China (capital Beijing, about 1,408,280,000 people).

By area, Nepal 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 28.0° N, 84.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing Nepal 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 Kathmandu. 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.

Nepal lies about 3,108 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.

Nepal keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+05:45. 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 +05:45 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Nepalese rupee (NPR, ₨).

The official language is Nepali, 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 +977 and websites commonly use the .np internet domain.

In short, Nepal is a landlocked country in Asia, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Kathmandu. Nepal has a population of about 29,911,840 and covers around 147,181 km² (56,827 sq mi), ranking it 51st in the world by population and 93rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Nepal.

The flag of Nepal is the world's only non-quadrilateral flag of a sovereign country. It takes the shape of two adjoining right-angled triangles and has a crimson red field with deep blue edges. Within the smaller upper triangle is an emblem of the upper half of a white sun resting on an upward facing white crescent. The lower triangle bears a white sun with twelve rays.

The flag of Nepal 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.