Map of Taiwan

Taiwan is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 23.5° N, 121.0° 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, Taiwan is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Taiwan covers about 36,197 km² (13,976 sq mi). That makes it the 134th-largest country in the world by area and the 37th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 12 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 23,317,031, the 59th-largest in the world and the 23rd-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.5% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Taiwan has an average population density of about 644 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 23rd by population and 37th by area.

The seat of government is Taipei, and the official currency is the New Taiwan dollar (TWD, $), and the main official language is Chinese. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+08:00.

Taiwan carries the ISO country codes TW and TWN, dials on the international calling code +886 and uses the .tw, .台灣, .台湾 internet domain.

Taiwan 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 23.5° N, 121.0° E places it about 2,608 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Asia.

The interactive map above is centred on 23.5° N, 121.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Taiwan 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 Taipei. 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.

Taiwan lies about 2,608 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.

Taiwan 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 New Taiwan dollar (TWD, $).

The official language is Chinese, 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 +886 and websites commonly use the .tw, .台灣, .台湾 internet domain.

In short, Taiwan is an island nation in Asia, with no land borders. Its capital is Taipei. Taiwan has a population of about 23,317,031 and covers around 36,197 km² (13,976 sq mi), ranking it 59th in the world by population and 134th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Taiwan.

The flag of Taiwan has a red field with a dark blue rectangle in the canton, bearing a white sun with 12 triangular rays.

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