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Saint Martin

Sint Maarten

Sint Maarten is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean region of . With a population of 58,477 as of June 2023 on an area of 34 km2, it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of , while the northern 56% of the island constitutes the French overseas collectivity of .
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  • Type: Country with 37,400 residents
  • Description: country on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Country of Sint Maarten”, “NL-SX”, “Saint Martin”, “Saint Martin (Dutch part)”, “Sint Maarten (Dutch part)”, “Sint Maarten (Dutch Part)”, “Sint Martin”, “St Martin”, “St. Maarten”, “SX”, and “sxm”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Martin of Tours‘ Church and Concordia Monument (1948).

Church
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The St. Martin of Tours' Church is a religious building is located at 51 Voorstraat, Voorstraat, in the city of , Sint Maarten on the Dutch side of the Caribbean in the Lesser Antilles east of the Caribbean Sea or Sea The Antilles.

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Peak
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is a peak.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Philipsburg and Grand Case.

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is the capital of "Dutch Side" Sint Maarten on the island of in the sea. It is a busy port for cruise ships and one of the Caribbean's best shopping spots.

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is in the northern coast of . The Gourmet Capital of the Caribbean. is located on the French side of the island. From you have a beautiful view of Anguilla, the neighboring island.

Town
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Saint Martin is an island in the Caribbean that is split between the French collectivity of Saint-Martin and the Dutch territory of Sint Maarten. Beauty abounds on the island, with bluffs overlooking pretty harbors, sandy-cliffed beaches and tranquil rocky coves where fish provide the beauty.

Sint Maarten

Latitude
18.0424° or 18° 2′ 33″ north
Longitude
-63.055° or 63° 3′ 18″ west
Population
37,400
Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)
Operator
Land Sint Maarten
IATA airport code
SXM
United Nations Location Code
SX MAR
Open location code
77CR2WRW+W2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 271048940
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
7609695
Wiki­data ID
Q26273
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Sint Maarten” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sint Maarten”
  • Afrikaans: “Sint-Maarten”
  • Albanian: “Sint-Marten”
  • Amharic: “ሲንት ማርተን”
  • Amis: “NL-SX”
  • Amis: “Saint Martin”
  • Amis: “Sint Maarten”
  • Amis: “Sint Martin”
  • Amis: “St. Maarten”
  • Amis: “SX”
  • Amis: “sxm”
  • Arabic: “سانت مارتن”
  • Arabic: “سنت مارتن”
  • Arabic: “سينت مارتن”
  • Aragonese: “Sint Maarten”
  • Armenian: “Սինտ Մաարտեն”
  • Armenian: “Սինտ Մարտեն”
  • Assamese: “চিণ্ট মাৰ্টেন”
  • Asturian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sint-Marten”
  • Balinese: “Sint Maarten”
  • Bashkir: “Синт-Мартен”
  • Basque: “Saint Maarten”
  • Basque: “Sint Maarten”
  • Belarusian: “Сінт-Маартэн”
  • Belarusian: “Сінт-Мартэн”
  • Bengali: “সিন্ট মার্টেন”
  • Bosnian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Bosnian: “Sint Marten”
  • Breton: “Sint Maarten”
  • Bulgarian: “Синт Маартен”
  • Bulgarian: “Синт Мартен”
  • Burmese: “စင့်မာတင်”
  • Catalan: “Sint Maarten”
  • Cebuano: “Sint Maarten”
  • Chechen: “Синт-Мартен”
  • Cheyenne: “Sint Maarten”
  • Chinese: “Sint Maarten”
  • Chinese: “圣马丁岛”
  • Chinese: “聖雪丁島”
  • Chinese: “荷属圣马丁 / 荷屬聖馬丁 / 荷屬聖馬田”
  • Chinese: “荷属圣马丁”
  • Chinese: “荷屬聖馬丁”
  • Chinese: “荷屬馬丁尼”
  • Croatian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Croatian: “Sveti Martin”
  • Croatian: “Zemlja Sveti Martin”
  • Czech: “Sint Maarten”
  • Czech: “Svatý Martin (Nizozemsko)”
  • Czech: “Svatý Martin”
  • Danish: “Sint Maarten”
  • Dutch: “Eilandgebied sint maarten”
  • Dutch: “Land Sint Maarten”
  • Dutch: “Sint Maarten”
  • Dutch: “Sint-Maarten”
  • Dutch: “SX”
  • Dutch: “SXM”
  • Dzongkha: “སིནཊ་ མཱར་ཊེན”
  • Erzya: “Синт-Мартен”
  • Esperanto: “Nederlanda Sankta Marteno”
  • Esperanto: “Sankt-Marteno Nederlanda”
  • Esperanto: “Sint Maarten”
  • Esperanto: “Sint-Maarten”
  • Estonian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Ewe: “Sint Maarten nutome”
  • Faroese: “Sint Maarten”
  • Finnish: “Sint Maarten”
  • French: “État de Saint Martin”
  • French: “État de Saint-Martin”
  • French: “État de Sint Maarten”
  • French: “Land Sint Maarten”
  • French: “NL-SX”
  • French: “Saint Martin (partie néerlandaise)”
  • French: “Saint Martin”
  • French: “Saint-Martin (partie néerlandaise)”
  • French: “Saint-Martin (Royaume des Pays-Bas)”
  • French: “Saint-Martin”
  • French: “Sint Maarten (partie néerlandaise)”
  • French: “Sint Maarten”
  • French: “Sint-Maarten”
  • French: “St Maarten”
  • French: “SX”
  • Friulian: “Saint Marteen (Pais Bass)”
  • Friulian: “Saint Marteen”
  • Gagauz: “Sint Maarten”
  • Galician: “Sint Maarten”
  • Georgian: “სინტ-მაარტენი”
  • Georgian: “სინტ-მარტენი”
  • German: “Sint Maarten”
  • German: “St. Maarten”
  • Goan Konkani: “सिंट मार्टेन”
  • Greek: “Άγιος Μαρτίνος (Ολλανδικό τμήμα)”
  • Greek: “Άγιος Μαρτίνος”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Sen-Martin (Rwayom dé Péyi-Ba)”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Sen-Martin”
  • Gujarati: “સિંટ માર્ટેન”
  • Gujarati: “સિન્ટ માર્ટન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sint Maarten”
  • Hausa: “San Maarten”
  • Hebrew: “סנט מארטן”
  • Hindi: “सिंट मार्टिन”
  • Hindi: “सिंट मार्टेन”
  • Hindi: “सिण्ट मार्टेन”
  • Hungarian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Hungarian: “Szent Márton”
  • Icelandic: “Sint Maarten”
  • Ido: “Sint Maarten”
  • Igbo: “Sint Maarten”
  • Indonesian: “Eilandgebied Sint Maarten”
  • Indonesian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Interlingua: “Sint Maarten”
  • Interlingue: “Sint Maarten”
  • Irish: “Sint Maarten”
  • Italian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Italian: “Sint-Maarten”
  • Italian: “St. Maarten”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Sin Maatn”
  • Japanese: “オランダ領シント・マールテン”
  • Japanese: “シント・マールテン”
  • Javanese: “Sint Martén”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿಂಟ್ ಮಾರ್ಟೆನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Синт-Мартен”
  • Khmer: “សីង​ម៉ាធីន”
  • Kirghiz: “Синт Маартен”
  • Kirghiz: “Синт-Мартен”
  • Korean: “신트마르턴 섬”
  • Korean: “신트마르턴”
  • Korean: “신트마르텐 섬”
  • Korean: “신트마르텐”
  • Ladino: “Sint Maarten”
  • Lao: “ຊິນ ມາເທັນ”
  • Latin: “Sanctus Martinus (Regnum Nederlandiae)”
  • Latin: “Sanctus Martinus”
  • Latvian: “Sintmārtena”
  • Limburgan: “Sint Maarten”
  • Limburgan: “Sint-Maarten”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “San Martin”
  • Lithuanian: “Sent Martinas”
  • Lithuanian: “Sint Martenas”
  • Lombard: “Sint Maarten”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sint Maarten”
  • Luxembourgish: “St Maarten”
  • Macedonian: “Свети Мартин”
  • Malay: “Sint Maarten”
  • Malayalam: “സിന്റ് മാർട്ടൻ”
  • Malayalam: “സിന്റ് മാർട്ടെൻ”
  • Maltese: “Sint Maarten”
  • Marathi: “सिंट मार्टेन”
  • Mazanderani: “سینت مارتن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sint Maarten”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sint Maarten”
  • Mingrelian: “სინტ-მარტენი”
  • Moksha: “Синт-Мартэн”
  • Mongolian: “Синт Мартен”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سينت مارطن”
  • Nepali: “सिन्ट मार्टेन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Northern Sami: “Vuolleeatnamat Saint Martin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sint Maarten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sint-Maarten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St. Maarten”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sint Maarten”
  • Norwegian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sint Maarten”
  • Oriya: “ସିଣ୍ଟ ମାର୍ଟୀନ୍‌”
  • Ossetian: “Синт-Мартен”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਿੰਟ ਮਾਰਟਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਿੰਟ ਮਾਰਟੀਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Sint Maarten”
  • Persian: “سن مارتن”
  • Persian: “سنت مارتن”
  • Persian: “سنت مارتین هلند”
  • Persian: “سینت مارتن”
  • Piemontese: “Sint Maarten”
  • Polish: “Sint Maarten”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de São Martinho”
  • Portuguese: “Saint Marteen”
  • Portuguese: “São Martinho (parte neerlandesa)”
  • Portuguese: “São Martinho”
  • Portuguese: “Sint maarten”
  • Portuguese: “Sint Maarten”
  • Portuguese: “St. Maarten”
  • Pushto: “سينټ مارټين”
  • Pushto: “سینټ مارټین”
  • Pushto: “هالينډي سينټ مارټين”
  • Quechua: “Sint Maarten”
  • Romanian: “Sfântul Martin”
  • Romanian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Romanian: “Sint-Maarten”
  • Romansh: “Sint Maarten”
  • Russian: “Сен-Мартен”
  • Russian: “Синт-Маартен”
  • Russian: “Синт-Мартен”
  • Sardinian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Scots: “Sint Maarten”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sint Maarten”
  • Serbian: “Свети Мартин (Холандија)”
  • Serbian: “Свети Мартин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Shan: “သိၼ်ႉမႃႇတိၼ်ႇ”
  • Sindhi: “سنٽ مارٽن”
  • Sinhala: “ශාන්ත මාර්ටෙන්”
  • Sinhala: “සින්ට් මාර්ටන්”
  • Slovak: “Sint Maarten”
  • Slovak: “Svätý Martin (hol.)”
  • Slovenian: “nizozemski Sveti Martin”
  • Slovenian: “Nizozemski Sveti Martin”
  • Slovenian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Slovenian: “St. Maarten”
  • Slovenian: “Sveti Martin”
  • Somali: “Siint Maarteen”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سینت مارتن”
  • Spanish: “Isla de San Martín”
  • Spanish: “San Martín”
  • Spanish: “Sint Maarten Land”
  • Spanish: “Sint Maarten”
  • Spanish: “St. Maarten”
  • Spanish: “SX”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Sint Maarten”
  • Sundanese: “Sint Maarten”
  • Swahili: “Sint Maarten”
  • Swedish: “Sint Maarten”
  • Swiss German: “Sint Maarten”
  • Tagalog: “Sint Maarten”
  • Tajik: “Синт-Маартен”
  • Tamil: “சின்டு மார்தின்”
  • Tamil: “சின்ட் மார்டென்”
  • Tamil: “சின்ட் மாறிட்டேன்”
  • Tatar: “Синт-Мартен”
  • Telugu: “సింట్ మార్టెన్”
  • Thai: “ซินต์มาร์เติน”
  • Thai: “ซินต์มาร์เทน”
  • Thai: “บูทาเลจา”
  • Tigrinya: “ሲንት ማርቲን”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sā Mātini (fakahōlani)”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sā Mātini”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Turkish: “Sint Maarten”
  • Turkmen: “Sint-Marten”
  • Uighur: “سىنت مارتېن”
  • Ukrainian: “Сен-Мартен”
  • Ukrainian: “Сінт-Мартен”
  • Urdu: “Sint Maarten”
  • Urdu: “سنٹ مارٹن”
  • Urdu: “سینٹ مارٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Sint-Marten”
  • Venetian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Vietnamese: “Lãnh thổ Đảo Sint Maarten”
  • Vietnamese: “Lãnh thổ Sint Maarten”
  • Vietnamese: “Lãnh thổ St. Maarten”
  • Vietnamese: “Sint Maarten”
  • Vlaams: “Sint Moartn (land)”
  • Vlaams: “Sint Moartn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sint Maarten”
  • Welsh: “Sint Maarten”
  • Western Frisian: “Sint Maarten”
  • Western Frisian: “Sint Marten”
  • Western Frisian: “Sint-Maarten”
  • Western Frisian: “Sint-Marten”
  • Western Panjabi: “سینٹ مارٹن”
  • Wolof: “Sin Marten”
  • Wu Chinese: “荷属圣马丁”
  • Yakut: “Синт-Мартен”
  • Yoruba: “Sint Maarten”
  • Yue Chinese: “荷屬聖馬丁”
  • Zeeuws: “Sint Maerten (land)”
  • Zeeuws: “Sint Maerten”
  • Zulu: “i-Sint Maarten”
  • “SX”
  • “SXM”

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