Country

Antarctica

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Local time: Australian Western Standard TimeUTC+08:00; 9 more

Facts

Antarctica in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: None recorded
Time zones: UTC-03:00Rothera TimeUTC-03:00UTC+02:00Syowa TimeUTC+03:00Mawson TimeUTC+05:00Vostok TimeUTC+05:00Davis TimeUTC+07:00Australian Western Standard TimeUTC+08:00Dumont d’Urville TimeUTC+10:00New Zealand Daylight TimeUTC+13:00
Plugs: Not recorded in Wikidata
Emergency numbers: Not recorded in Wikidata
Area: 14,000,000 km²
Internet domain: .aq
Land borders: None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

Cities

Cities in Antarctica

All 0 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to Antarctica

Tell us where in Antarctica, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.