Antarctica
Antarctica · Antarctic
Antarctica is an uninhabited territory in the Antarctic region. It has no capital city and no permanent population. Antarctica shares no land border with any other country.
| Region | Antarctic |
|---|---|
| ISO codes | AQ / ATA / 010 ISO 3166-1 |
| Flag emoji | 🇦🇶 |
| Area | 14,000,000 km² |
| Internet domain | .aq |
| Demonym | Antarctican |
About Antarctica
Antarctica is a dependency or territory in the Antarctic region. It has no land borders.
Frequently asked questions
What are the ISO codes for Antarctica?
What is the flag emoji for Antarctica?
Why Antarctica has its own code
ISO 3166-1 assigns codes to territories as well as to sovereign states, because the codes are used for shipping, banking, internet domains, statistics and data exchange rather than as a statement about statehood. That is why this territory appears in country dropdowns, address forms and datasets alongside places many times its size.
Antarctica holds the alpha-2 code AQ, the alpha-3 code ATA, the numeric code 010 and the internet domain .aq. It lists no capital city, because there is no seat of government to name. The World Bank does not publish a separate population figure for it, so this page shows none rather than an estimate.
Flags with the same colours as Antarctica
10 other national flags use exactly the same set of colour families (blue, white). Similar colours are the most common reason flags get mistaken for one another, though colour alone says nothing about layout.
Population from the World Bank (SP.POP.TOTL); flag, capital, currency, calling code and ISO data from open datasets. Rankings, density and flag colour matches are computed from that same dataset. Full sources and vintage on the data page. Last updated . Report a correction.