Map of Spain

Spain is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 40.0° N, 4.0° W. It shares land borders with 4 countries — Andorra, France, Morocco and Portugal — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Spain is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Spain shares land frontiers with the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Spain covers about 505,992 km² (195,365 sq mi). That makes it the 51st-largest country in the world by area and the 4th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 41 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 49,315,949, the 31st-largest in the world and the 6th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 6.7% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Spain has an average population density of about 97 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 6th by population and 4th by area.

The seat of government is Madrid, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official languages are Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes time zones UTC and UTC+01:00.

Spain carries the ISO country codes ES and ESP, dials on the international calling code +34 and uses the .es internet domain.

Spain shares its land borders with 4 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 France (capital Paris, about 66,351,959 people), Morocco (capital Rabat, about 36,828,330 people), Portugal (capital Lisbon, about 10,749,635 people) and Andorra (capital Andorra la Vella, about 88,406 people).

By area, Spain is larger than 3 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 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 40.0° N, 4.0° W and opens at zoom level 5, framing Spain within Europe. 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 Madrid. 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.

Spain lies about 4,440 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Spain spans 2 time zones, from UTC to UTC+01:00, reflecting the spread of its territory across the globe. Each is expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); where a country covers several zones, the official local time can differ from one part of it to another.

The official currency is the Euro (EUR, €).

The official languages are Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician, 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 +34 and websites commonly use the .es internet domain.

In short, Spain is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Madrid. Spain has a population of about 49,315,949 and covers around 505,992 km² (195,365 sq mi), ranking it 31st in the world by population and 51st by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Spain.

The flag of Spain is composed of three horizontal bands of red, yellow and red, with the yellow band twice the height of the red bands. In the yellow band is the national coat of arms offset slightly towards the hoist side of center.

The flag of Spain 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.