Map of Venezuela

Venezuela is located in South America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 8.0° N, 66.0° W. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Brazil, Colombia and Guyana — and also has its own coastline. Within South America, a continent of 12 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Venezuela is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Venezuela shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Venezuela covers about 916,445 km² (353,841 sq mi). That makes it the 32nd-largest country in the world by area and the 6th-largest in South America, larger by area than 6 of the continent’s 12 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 28,517,000, the 53rd-largest in the world and the 5th-largest in South America, accounting for about 6.5% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Venezuela has an average population density of about 31 people per km². Among the 12 countries of South America it stands 5th by population and 6th by area.

The seat of government is Caracas, and the official currency is the Venezuelan bolívar soberano (VES, Bs.S.), and the main official language is Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-04:00.

Venezuela carries the ISO country codes VE and VEN, dials on the international calling code +58 and uses the .ve internet domain.

Venezuela shares its land borders with 3 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 Brazil (capital Brasília, about 213,421,037 people), Colombia (capital Bogotá, about 53,057,212 people) and Guyana (capital Georgetown, about 772,975 people).

By area, Venezuela is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 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 8.0° N, 66.0° W and opens at zoom level 5, framing Venezuela within South America. 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 Caracas. 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.

Venezuela lies about 888 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.

Venezuela 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 Venezuelan bolívar soberano (VES, Bs.S.).

The official language is Spanish, 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 +58 and websites commonly use the .ve internet domain.

In short, Venezuela is a coastal country in South America, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Caracas. Venezuela has a population of about 28,517,000 and covers around 916,445 km² (353,841 sq mi), ranking it 53rd in the world by population and 32nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Venezuela.

The flag of Venezuela is composed of three equal horizontal bands of yellow, blue and red. At the center of the blue band are eight five-pointed white stars arranged in a horizontal arc.

The flag of Venezuela 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.