Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- none
- Region
- Antarctic
- Population
- none
- Area
- 14,000,000 km²
- Currency
- none
- Languages
- not listed
- Calling code
- not listed
- Internet domain
- .aq
- ISO codes
- AQ, ATA, 010
- Time zone
- UTC-3:00 to UTC+13:00
- United Nations
- Not a member
Land and position
Antarctica covers about 14,000,000 square kilometres. By area it ranks 2nd among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Russia and a little larger than Canada. It has no land border with any other country. Its centre lies at about 90° south, 0° east, in the southern hemisphere.
People
It has no permanent population.
Time
Antarctica spans 10 time zone areas, from UTC-3:00 to UTC+13:00. Clocks are moved for daylight saving time in part of the year.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
More in the Antarctic region
Bouvet Island, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, South Georgia. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.