Governed by treaty rather than any state, with no permanent population and no government of its own.
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Antarctica
Antarctica
Antarctica
ยท Antarctica
0Population
14Mkmยฒ of land
$200KGDP / person
-Capital
- ISO codes
- AQ ยท ATA
- Density
- -
- Languages
- -
- Currencies
- -
- Dial code
- -
- Internet domain
- .aq
- Time zones
- 10
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 79.8430ยฐ S, 35.8850ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Antarctican
- UN region
- Antarctica
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $898M
- Sovereignty
- Not independent ยท not a UN member
- Borders
- None
Highlighted in teal. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan, or hit ๐ for the globe.
By the numbers
How Antarctica stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
231st
of 242 ยท 0.00% of world population
Land area
2nd
of 242 ยท 9.33% of world land
GDP per person
1st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
231st
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Antarctica
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 4,490 people, the 231st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,000,000 of everyone alive.
Covers 14,000,000 kmยฒ, making it the 2nd largest country here - about 4.3 times the size of India.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 10 time zones, from Antarctica/Casey to Antarctica/Vostok.
Uses the .aq internet domain.
Annual GDP is around $1 billion - the 209th largest economy here, or about $200,000 per person.
Sits in Antarctica, in the Antarctica sub-region, and reaches beyond the Antarctic Circle.
Holds about 100 per cent of Antarctica's people, one of 1 countries on the continent.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Antarctica/Casey
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Antarctica/Davis
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Antarctica/DumontDUrville
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Antarctica/Mawson
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Antarctica/McMurdo
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Antarctica/Palmer
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Antarctica/Rothera
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Antarctica/Syowa
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Antarctica/Troll
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Antarctica/Vostok
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Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
McMurdo Station
77.7323ยฐ S, 166.8694ยฐ E
1K
2
Esperanza Base
63.3753ยฐ S, 57.0259ยฐ W
250
3
Casey Station
66.2861ยฐ S, 110.5362ยฐ E
200
4
AmundsenโScott South Pole Station
90.0000ยฐ S, 176.9945ยฐ E
200
5
Mirny Station
66.5755ยฐ S, 93.0063ยฐ E
169
6
Marambio Base
64.2329ยฐ S, 56.6500ยฐ W
150
7
Base Presidente Montalva
62.1827ยฐ S, 58.9077ยฐ W
150
8
Rothera Station
67.5648ยฐ S, 68.1235ยฐ W
130
9
Dumont d'Urville Station
66.7751ยฐ S, 139.9637ยฐ E
120
10
Belgrano II Base
77.8663ยฐ S, 34.6167ยฐ W
100
๐ Peaks
Mount Vinson
4,892 m
Mount Erebus
3,794 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Antarctic Peninsula
Adventure
The only continent with no permanent human population, reached across the Drake Passage in about two days.