Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Dili
- Region
- Asia, South-Eastern Asia
- Population
- 1,418,517 (2025)
- Area
- 15,007 km²
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Languages
- Tetum, Portuguese, Indonesian, English
- Calling code
- +670
- Internet domain
- .tl
- ISO codes
- TL, TLS, 626
- Time zone
- UTC+9:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- TL##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Timor-Leste covers about 15,007 square kilometres. By area it ranks 161st among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Eswatini and a little larger than Montenegro. It shares a land border with 1 neighbour: Indonesia. Its centre lies at about 9° south, 126° east, in the southern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 1.42 million people live in Timor-Leste (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 155th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 95 people to each square kilometre. About 29 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 68 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Tetum, Portuguese, Indonesian, English. A person from Timor-Leste is called East Timorese.
Money and economy
The currency is the United States dollar (code USD, symbol $). It is also the main currency of American Samoa, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guam, Marshall Islands and 7 more. The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 1.9 billion (2025), which is about US$ 1,341 for each person (2025).
Time
Timor-Leste uses one time zone, UTC+9:00 (Asia/Dili). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Dili | 150,000 |
| Maliana | 22,000 |
| Suai | 21,539 |
| Likisá | 19,000 |
| Aileu | 17,356 |
| Lospalos | 17,186 |
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 South-Eastern Asia
Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand. 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.