🇬🇮 Gibraltar

Where is Gibraltar?

Gibraltar lies in Southern Europe, on the continent of Europe.

It sits in the northern half of the world, roughly 4 022 km from the equator.

Its coastline is about 12 km long.

It shares a border with 1 country: Spain.

How big is Gibraltar?

Gibraltar covers 6 square kilometres.

If everybody spread out evenly, there would be about 5 619.7 people on every square kilometre.

Who lives in Gibraltar?

About 34 thousand people live in Gibraltar.

People here speak English.

They pay with the Gibraltar pound (£).

On average, people born here can expect to live about 79 years.

The land of Gibraltar

Its coast runs for about 12 km. Walking it end to end, at twenty kilometres a day, would take roughly 1 days.

It lies between the tropics and the poles, which is the single biggest reason its weather is the way it is.

What makes Gibraltar different?

Websites from here often end in .gi.

Gibraltar and the rest of the world

Out of every thousand people alive on Earth, about 0 live in Gibraltar.

It takes up about 0 % of all the land that countries stand on.

That is busier than the world average of roughly 60 people per square kilometre.

Gibraltar and its neighbours

Spain, its largest neighbour, is about 84 332 times bigger.

Spain has more people: 46.8 million against 34 thousand.

A country, or a territory?

Gibraltar is not an independent country but a territory. It has its own name, its own borders and often its own laws, but another country speaks for it abroad — it holds no seat of its own at the United Nations, for instance.

That is more common than it sounds. There are dozens of such places around the world: some sit far from the country they belong to, some right beside it. A few govern themselves almost completely and hand over only defence and foreign policy; others are held more closely. How much a territory decides for itself is settled case by case, never by one rule.

On this site territories get a page of their own, because children look them up and because other pages link to them. They are left out of the record lists, though: those rank only members of the United Nations, so that a ranking never mixes countries with places belonging to somebody else.

Its nearest neighbour by land is Spain.