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What Country Am I In?

Tap the button to see which country you are in, anywhere in the world, or search a place, enter coordinates or click the map to check any point.

    Decimal (39.7392, -104.9903) or DMS (39°44'21"N 104°59'25"W).

    Or click the map

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    Your country

    Choose a location to see the country.

    Your location at a glance

    Check the same point with the other location tools. After you choose a location, each link opens on that spot.

    By Ankit Kumar · Updated

    What your result means

    Country and flag
    The country or territory whose OpenStreetMap boundary contains the point, with its official name. Territories such as Puerto Rico or Greenland are shown as themselves, with their own codes.
    Region and nearest place
    The state, province or region and the closest city or town in OpenStreetMap, to confirm the tool checked the right spot.
    Capital
    The capital city; a few countries list more than one.
    ISO codes
    The ISO 3166-1 two-letter, three-letter and numeric codes (ISO).
    Currency
    The legal tender, with its ISO 4217 code and symbol (ISO). Some countries use more than one.
    Calling code
    The international dialing prefix (ITU). Countries in the North American Numbering Plan share +1 and are told apart by area code.
    Drives on
    The side of the road traffic keeps to.
    Time zone and local time
    The IANA zone at the point, today's UTC offset and a live clock. Large countries have several zones; this is the one at your point.
    Elevation
    Ground height at the point in feet and meters; the link opens our elevation tool on the same spot with its data source and accuracy.

    How the country finder works

    1. Your point comes from your device's GPS, a place search, typed coordinates or a click on the map.
    2. Our server asks OpenStreetMap Nominatim which country, region and place contain those coordinates, and checks the time zone against the boundaries from timezone-boundary-builder.
    3. The country's code is matched to a record built from mledoze/countries for its capital, codes, currency and calling code, and the flag is shown.
    4. Elevation comes from USGS in the US and from Terrain Tiles elsewhere.
    5. The page address keeps the coordinates, so a copied link opens the same result.

    Borders, enclaves and disputed areas

    The answer is only as precise as two things: your position and the mapped border. On a phone outdoors, the position is usually good enough to settle which side of a border you are on; on a laptop using Wi-Fi it may not be, so near a border click the exact spot on the map.

    Borders come from OpenStreetMap, which records the boundary in effect on the ground and documents how it handles disputes (OSM Foundation). For a disputed area, a government or another map may name a different country than this tool does. Over open ocean, and in Antarctica, no country boundary applies.

    Worked examples

    Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau

    In this town on the Belgium–Netherlands border, pockets of Belgium sit inside the Netherlands. A point at 51.4387, 4.9271 returns Belgium (region Antwerp, place Baarle-Hertog), though Dutch territory surrounds it. Click a few streets away and the answer can switch to the Netherlands.

    San Diego and Tijuana

    Downtown San Diego returns the United States (California); a point in Tijuana at 32.5422, −117.0297 returns Mexico (Baja California). Both are in the same time zone, America/Los_Angeles, but the currency and calling code change at the line: US dollar and +1 on one side, Mexican peso and +52 on the other.

    Lake Constance

    Germany, Austria and Switzerland surround Lake Constance (Bodensee), and the three have never agreed on a border through most of the lake. Out on the water at 47.63, 9.35, between Friedrichshafen and Romanshorn, the tool returns Switzerland (Thurgau), because OpenStreetMap draws a line through the lake; another map could leave that water undivided.

    Countries that drive on the left

    76 of the 250 countries and territories in our data keep to the left (Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-11-13); the rest keep to the right.

    Independent countries (54)

    Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bhutan, Botswana, Brunei, Cyprus, Dominica, Eswatini, Fiji, Grenada, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

    Territories (22)

    Anguilla, Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Falkland Islands, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Jersey, Macau, Montserrat, Niue, Norfolk Island, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Tokelau, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Virgin Islands

    Accuracy and limitations

    • Your position: laptop and indoor positions can be off by a block or more. Near a border, click the exact spot.
    • Map data: borders and place names come from OpenStreetMap volunteers and are updated continually; a recent change may not be reflected yet.
    • Disputed areas: the tool shows one answer, OpenStreetMap's; it takes no position on any dispute.
    • Country facts: capitals, currencies and calling codes are from the mledoze/countries dataset as built on 2026-11-12. Currency changes and new codes reach the tool when the data is rebuilt.
    • Time zone: the zone boundaries are simplified, so within a few hundred meters of a zone line the neighboring zone can be shown. Open ocean has no zone in the data.

    Related tools

    In the United States, the same point also answers what state you are in,what county and the street address. Anywhere, the time zone finder adds daylight saving dates and world clocks.

    Frequently asked questions

    What country am I in right now?

    Tap "Find my country" above and allow location access. The tool checks your position against OpenStreetMap country boundaries and shows the country with its flag, capital, codes, currency, calling code, driving side, local time and elevation. Without location access, search a place, type coordinates or click the map.

    How do I know which country I am in from GPS coordinates?

    Paste the latitude and longitude into the coordinates box, in decimal (48.8584, 2.2945) or degrees-minutes-seconds. GPS itself only gives coordinates; the tool matches them to a country boundary.

    Why does my phone or a website show a different country?

    Many apps and sites guess your country from your mobile network or your IP address. Near a border your phone can connect to a tower across the line, and a VPN or a roaming connection can place you in another country entirely. This tool uses only the point you share or choose.

    Does GPS work in another country, or without internet?

    GPS works anywhere, with no internet or roaming: the phone receives satellite signals. Turning the coordinates into a country name, and loading this page, needs a data connection.

    What is an ISO country code?

    ISO 3166-1 gives each country a two-letter code (FR), a three-letter code (FRA) and a three-digit number (250). Two-letter codes appear in internet domains and on passports; three-letter codes in airline and banking systems; numbers where letters vary by language.

    How many countries are there?

    There is no single answer. ISO 3166-1 lists 249 countries and territories with officially assigned codes, and this tool's data adds Kosovo, which uses the user-assigned code XK, for 250 in all. Many of these are dependent territories rather than independent states.

    Which countries drive on the left?

    76 of the 250 countries and territories in our data drive on the left, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The full list is on this page.

    What does the tool show at sea or in Antarctica?

    Over open ocean it says the point is not inside any country, because no country boundary covers it. In Antarctica it says the same: the continent is governed under the Antarctic Treaty and belongs to no country. Elevation, and the time zone where one is defined, are still shown.

    What about disputed territory?

    The answer follows OpenStreetMap, which maps the boundary that is in effect on the ground. For a disputed area, other maps or governments may name a different country.

    Is the elevation accurate outside the US?

    Outside the US the elevation comes from Terrain Tiles, an open dataset that blends national and global elevation models, so accuracy varies by country. Open the elevation tool from the result for the data source and its published accuracy at that spot.

    Sources

    How each number is produced: methodology and data sources.