Map of Vanuatu

Vanuatu is located in Oceania. Its territory lies in the southern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 16.0° S, 167.0° 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 Oceania, a continent of 14 countries bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean, Vanuatu is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Vanuatu covers about 12,189 km² (4,706 sq mi). That makes it the 158th-largest country in the world by area and the 6th-largest in Oceania, larger by area than 8 of the continent’s 14 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 321,409, the 175th-largest in the world and the 6th-largest in Oceania, accounting for about 0.7% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Vanuatu has an average population density of about 26 people per km². Among the 14 countries of Oceania it stands 6th by population and 6th by area.

The seat of government is Port Vila, and the official currency is the Vanuatu vatu (VUV, Vt), and the main official languages are Bislama, English and French. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+11:00.

Vanuatu carries the ISO country codes VU and VUT, dials on the international calling code +678 and uses the .vu internet domain.

Vanuatu 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 16.0° S, 167.0° E places it about 1,776 km from the equator, in the southern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Oceania.

The interactive map above is centred on 16.0° S, 167.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Vanuatu within Oceania. 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 Port Vila. 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.

Vanuatu lies about 1,776 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.

Vanuatu keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+11:00. 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 +11:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Vanuatu vatu (VUV, Vt).

The official languages are Bislama, 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 right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +678 and websites commonly use the .vu internet domain.

In short, Vanuatu is an island nation in Oceania, with no land borders. Its capital is Port Vila. Vanuatu has a population of about 321,409 and covers around 12,189 km² (4,706 sq mi), ranking it 175th in the world by population and 158th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Vanuatu.

The flag of Vanuatu is composed of two equal horizontal bands of red and green, with a black isosceles 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 is enclosed on its sides by the arms of a thin black-edged yellow horizontally oriented Y-shaped band which extends along the boundary of the red and green bands to the fly end of the field. A yellow boar's tusk encircling two yellow crossed namele leaves is centered in the triangle.

The flag of Vanuatu 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.