One of the youngest nations in Asia, independent since 2002, and part of the Coral Triangle.
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Timor-Leste
Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
Asia
ยท South-Eastern Asia
0Population
14.87Kkmยฒ of land
$1.56KGDP / person
DiliCapital
- ISO codes
- TL ยท TLS
- Density
- 87 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Portuguese, Tetum
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Dial code
- +670
- Internet domain
- .tl
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 8.8040ยฐ S, 125.8550ยฐ E
- Demonym
- East Timorese
- UN region
- South-Eastern Asia
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $2.02B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 1
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By the numbers
How Timor-Leste stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
158th
of 242 ยท 0.02% of world population
Land area
159th
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world land
GDP per person
196th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
114th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Timor-Leste
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 1,293,119 people, the 158th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 5,937 of everyone alive.
Covers 14,874 kmยฒ, making it the 159th largest country here - about 5.8 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 87 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Dili, at 8.56ยฐ S, 125.58ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 234,331.
Shares land borders with 1 country: Indonesia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Dili.
The currency is the United States dollar (USD, symbol $).
Has 2 official languages: Portuguese and Tetum.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Dili
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UTC+09:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Dili
Dili
8.5594ยฐ S, 125.5795ยฐ E
234.33K
Land neighbours
1 country shares a border with Timor-Leste.