Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Fakaofo
- Region
- Oceania, Polynesia
- Population
- 1,466
- Area
- 10 km²
- Currency
- New Zealand dollar (NZD)
- Languages
- Tokelau, English
- Calling code
- +690
- Internet domain
- .tk
- ISO codes
- TK, TKL, 772
- Time zone
- UTC+13:00
- United Nations
- Not a member
Land and position
Tokelau covers about 10 square kilometres. By area it ranks 247th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Cocos (Keeling) Islands and a little larger than Gibraltar. It has no land border with any other country. Its centre lies at about 9° south, 172° west, in the southern hemisphere.
People
About 1,466 people live in Tokelau (GeoNames figure, year not stated). That makes it the 241st most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 147 people to each square kilometre. Languages listed for it: Tokelau, English. A person from Tokelau is called Tokelauan.
Money and economy
The currency is the New Zealand dollar (code NZD, symbol $). It is also the main currency of Cook Islands, New Zealand, Niue, Pitcairn Islands.
Time
Tokelau uses one time zone, UTC+13:00 (Pacific/Fakaofo). 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.
More in Polynesia
American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Niue, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu. 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.