Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Gibraltar
- Region
- Europe, Southern Europe
- Population
- 40,126 (2025)
- Area
- 6.5 km²
- Currency
- Gibraltar pound (GIP)
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
- Calling code
- +350
- Internet domain
- .gi
- ISO codes
- GI, GIB, 292
- Time zone
- UTC+1:00
- United Nations
- Not a member
- Postal code pattern
- GX11 1AA (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Gibraltar covers about 6.5 square kilometres. By area it ranks 248th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Tokelau and a little larger than Monaco. It shares a land border with 1 neighbour: Spain. Its centre lies at about 36° north, 5° west, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 40,126 people live in Gibraltar (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 217th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 6,173 people to each square kilometre. About 100 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 84 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese.
Money and economy
The currency is the Gibraltar pound (code GIP, symbol £).
Time
Gibraltar uses one time zone, UTC+1:00 (Europe/Gibraltar). 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.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Gibraltar | 26,544 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Southern Europe
Andorra, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Vatican City. 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.