Map of Seychelles

Seychelles is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 4.6° S, 55.7° 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 Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Seychelles is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Seychelles covers about 452 km² (175 sq mi). That makes it the 183rd-largest country in the world by area and the smallest country in Africa by area.

It is home to a population of roughly 122,729, the 180th-largest in the world and the 54th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Seychelles has an average population density of about 272 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 54th by population and 54th by area.

The seat of government is Victoria, and the official currency is the Seychellois rupee (SCR, ₨), and the main official languages are Seychellois Creole, English and French. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+04:00.

Seychelles carries the ISO country codes SC and SYC, dials on the international calling code +248 and uses the .sc internet domain.

Seychelles 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 4.6° S, 55.7° E places it about 509 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Africa.

The interactive map above is centred on 4.6° S, 55.7° E and opens at zoom level 10, framing Seychelles within Africa. 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 Victoria. 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.

Seychelles lies about 509 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.

Seychelles keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+04:00. 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 +04:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Seychellois rupee (SCR, ₨).

The official languages are Seychellois Creole, English and French, 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 +248 and websites commonly use the .sc internet domain.

In short, Seychelles is an island nation in Africa, with no land borders. Its capital is Victoria. Seychelles has a population of about 122,729 and covers around 452 km² (175 sq mi), ranking it 180th in the world by population and 183rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Seychelles.

The flag of Seychelles is composed of five broadening oblique bands of blue, yellow, red, white and green, which extend from the hoist side of the bottom edge to the top and fly edges of the field.

The flag of Seychelles 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.