Map of Philippines

Philippines is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 13.0° N, 122.0° 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 Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Philippines is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Philippines covers about 342,353 km² (132,183 sq mi). That makes it the 64th-largest country in the world by area and the 18th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 31 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 114,123,600, the 12th-largest in the world and the 7th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 2.4% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Philippines has an average population density of about 333 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 7th by population and 18th by area.

The seat of government is Manila, and the official currency is the Philippine peso (PHP, ₱), and the main official languages are English and Filipino. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+08:00.

Philippines carries the ISO country codes PH and PHL, dials on the international calling code +63 and uses the .ph internet domain.

Philippines 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 13.0° N, 122.0° E places it about 1,443 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Asia.

The interactive map above is centred on 13.0° N, 122.0° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Philippines 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 Manila. 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.

Philippines lies about 1,443 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.

Philippines keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+08:00. 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 +08:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Philippine peso (PHP, ₱).

The official languages are English and Filipino, 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 +63 and websites commonly use the .ph internet domain.

In short, Philippines is an island nation in Asia, with no land borders. Its capital is Manila. Philippines has a population of about 114,123,600 and covers around 342,353 km² (132,183 sq mi), ranking it 12th in the world by population and 64th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Philippines.

The flag of Philippines is composed of two equal horizontal bands of blue and red, with a white equilateral triangle superimposed on the hoist side of the field. This triangle has its base on the hoist end, spans about two-fifth the width of the field and bears a central golden-yellow sun with eight rays and a five-pointed golden-yellow star at each vertex.

The flag of Philippines 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.