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href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86" title="سينت مارتن – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="سينت مارتن" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Marten" title="Sint-Marten – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Sint-Marten" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86" title="سینت مارتن – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="سینت مارتن" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8" title="সিন্ট মার্টেন – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="সিন্ট মার্টেন" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82-%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD" title="Синт-Мартен – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Синт-Мартен" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%82-%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%BD" title="Сінт-Мартэн – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Сінт-Мартэн" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%82-%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%BD" title="Сінт-Маартэн – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Сінт-Маартэн" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD" title="Синт Мартен – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Синт Мартен" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten_(stad)" title="Sint Maarten (stad) – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Sint Maarten (stad)" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svat%C3%BD_Martin_(nizozemsk%C3%A1_%C4%8D%C3%A1st)" title="Svatý Martin (nizozemská část) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Svatý Martin (nizozemská část)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%86%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82_(%CE%9F%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B4%CE%AF%CE%B1)" title="Άγιος Μαρτίνος (Ολλανδία) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Άγιος Μαρτίνος (Ολλανδία)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-myv mw-list-item"><a href="https://myv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82-%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD" title="Синт-Мартен – Erzya" lang="myv" hreflang="myv" data-title="Синт-Мартен" data-language-autonym="Эрзянь" data-language-local-name="Erzya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Эрзянь</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Mart%C3%ADn_(Pa%C3%ADses_Bajos)" title="San Martín (Países Bajos) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="San Martín (Países Bajos)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Maarten" title="Sint-Maarten – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Sint-Maarten" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86_(%D9%87%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AF)" title="سن مارتن (هلند) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سن مارتن (هلند)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Martin_(royaume_des_Pays-Bas)" title="Saint-Martin (royaume des Pays-Bas) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Saint-Martin (royaume des Pays-Bas)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Marten_(l%C3%A2n)" title="Sint-Marten (lân) – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Sint-Marten (lân)" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fur mw-list-item"><a href="https://fur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Marteen_(Pais_Bass)" title="Saint Marteen (Pais Bass) – Friulian" lang="fur" hreflang="fur" data-title="Saint Marteen (Pais Bass)" data-language-autonym="Furlan" data-language-local-name="Friulian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Furlan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gag mw-list-item"><a href="https://gag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Gagauz" lang="gag" hreflang="gag" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Gagauz" data-language-local-name="Gagauz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gagauz</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gom mw-list-item"><a href="https://gom.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8" title="सिंट मार्टेन – Goan Konkani" lang="gom" hreflang="gom" data-title="सिंट मार्टेन" data-language-autonym="गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni" data-language-local-name="Goan Konkani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>गोंयची कोंकणी / Gõychi Konknni</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%A0%ED%8A%B8%EB%A7%88%EB%A5%B4%ED%84%B4" title="신트마르턴 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="신트마르턴" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%BF_%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%BF%D5%A5%D5%B6" title="Սինտ Մաարտեն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Սինտ Մաարտեն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8" title="सिण्ट मार्टेन – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="सिण्ट मार्टेन" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zemlja_Sveti_Martin" title="Zemlja Sveti Martin – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Zemlja Sveti Martin" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82-%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD" title="Синт-Мартен – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Синт-Мартен" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%98_%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%9F" title="סנט מארטן – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סנט מארטן" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A2-%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="სინტ-მარტენი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სინტ-მარტენი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82-%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD" title="Синт-Мартен – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Синт-Мартен" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gcr mw-list-item"><a href="https://gcr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sen-Martin_(Rwayom_d%C3%A9_P%C3%A9yi-Ba)" title="Sen-Martin (Rwayom dé Péyi-Ba) – Guianan Creole" lang="gcr" hreflang="gcr" data-title="Sen-Martin (Rwayom dé Péyi-Ba)" data-language-autonym="Kriyòl gwiyannen" data-language-local-name="Guianan Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kriyòl gwiyannen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lad mw-list-item"><a href="https://lad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Ladino" lang="lad" hreflang="lad" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Ladino" data-language-local-name="Ladino" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladino</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintm%C4%81rtena" title="Sintmārtena – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Sintmārtena" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Martenas" title="Sint Martenas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Sint Martenas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten_(Nederlands)" title="Sint Maarten (Nederlands) – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Sint Maarten (Nederlands)" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_(%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0)" title="Свети Мартин (Холандија) – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Свети Мартин (Холандија)" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%BB" title="സിന്റ് മാർട്ടൻ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="സിന്റ് മാർട്ടൻ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8" title="सिंट मार्टेन – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="सिंट मार्टेन" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A2-%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="სინტ-მარტენი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="სინტ-მარტენი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86" title="سینت مارتن – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="سینت مارتن" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten_(land)" title="Sint Maarten (land) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sint Maarten (land)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3" title="シント・マールテン – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="シント・マールテン" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BF%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%9F_%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%9F%E0%A8%A8" title="ਸਿੰਟ ਮਾਰਟਨ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਸਿੰਟ ਮਾਰਟਨ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ami mw-list-item"><a href="https://ami.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Amis" lang="ami" hreflang="ami" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Pangcah" data-language-local-name="Amis" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Pangcah</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%B9_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%B9%D9%86" title="سینٹ مارٹن – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="سینٹ مارٹن" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Papiamentu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jam mw-list-item"><a href="https://jam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_Maatn" title="Sin Maatn – Jamaican Creole English" lang="jam" hreflang="jam" data-title="Sin Maatn" data-language-autonym="Patois" data-language-local-name="Jamaican Creole English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Patois</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten_(terytorium)" title="Sint Maarten (terytorium) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Sint Maarten (terytorium)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Martinho_(Pa%C3%ADses_Baixos)" title="São Martinho (Países Baixos) – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="São Martinho (Países Baixos)" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82-%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD" title="Синт-Мартен – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Синт-Мартен" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sardu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizozemski_Sveti_Martin" title="Nizozemski Sveti Martin – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Nizozemski Sveti Martin" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-srn mw-list-item"><a href="https://srn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Sranan Tongo" lang="srn" hreflang="srn" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Sranantongo" data-language-local-name="Sranan Tongo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sranantongo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_(%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0)" title="Свети Мартин (Холандија) – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Свети Мартин (Холандија)" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten_(Alankomaat)" title="Sint Maarten (Alankomaat) – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Sint Maarten (Alankomaat)" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%81_%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D" title="சின்டு மார்தின் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="சின்டு மார்தின்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shn mw-list-item"><a href="https://shn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%9E%E1%80%AD%E1%81%BC%E1%80%BA%E1%82%89%E1%80%99%E1%82%83%E1%82%87%E1%80%90%E1%80%AD%E1%81%BC%E1%80%BA%E1%82%87" title="သိၼ်ႉမႃႇတိၼ်ႇ – Shan" lang="shn" hreflang="shn" data-title="သိၼ်ႉမႃႇတိၼ်ႇ" data-language-autonym="တႆး" data-language-local-name="Shan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>တႆး</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%95%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%99" title="ซินต์มาร์เติน – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ซินต์มาร์เติน" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-to mw-list-item"><a href="https://to.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%81_M%C4%81tini_(fakah%C5%8Dlani)" title="Sā Mātini (fakahōlani) – Tongan" lang="to" hreflang="to" data-title="Sā Mātini (fakahōlani)" data-language-autonym="Lea faka-Tonga" data-language-local-name="Tongan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lea faka-Tonga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-chy mw-list-item"><a href="https://chy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Cheyenne" lang="chy" hreflang="chy" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Tsetsêhestâhese" data-language-local-name="Cheyenne" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tsetsêhestâhese</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%82-%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD" title="Сінт-Мартен – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Сінт-Мартен" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%B9_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%B9%D9%86_(%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%88%D8%B2)" title="سنٹ مارٹن (نیدرلینڈز) – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="سنٹ مارٹن (نیدرلینڈز)" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Sint Maarten" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vls mw-list-item"><a href="https://vls.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Moartn_(land)" title="Sint Moartn (land) – West Flemish" lang="vls" hreflang="vls" data-title="Sint Moartn (land)" data-language-autonym="West-Vlams" data-language-local-name="West Flemish" 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-63.050</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest city</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lower_Prince%27s_Quarter" title="Lower Prince's Quarter">Lower Prince's Quarter</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official languages</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output 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class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic group">Ethnic groups</a> <div class="ib-pol-div-ethnic"> (2011)</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><i><u>note</u>: population by nationality</i></li><li>Sint Maarten 29.9%</li><li>Dominican Republic 10.2%</li><li>Haiti 7.8%</li><li>Jamaica 6.6%</li><li>Saint Martin 5.9%</li><li>Guyana 5%</li><li>Dominica 4.4%</li><li>Curacao 4.1%</li><li>Aruba 3.4%</li><li>Saint Kitts and Nevis 2.8%</li><li>India 2.6%</li><li>Netherlands 2.2%</li><li>United States 1.6%</li><li>Suriname 1.4%</li><li>Saint Lucia 1.3%</li><li>Anguilla 1.1%</li><li>other 8%</li><li>unspecified 1.7%<sup id="cite_ref-cia.gov_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cia.gov-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religion <div class="ib-pol-div-religion"></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1116488514">.mw-parser-output .treeview ul{padding:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .treeview li{padding:0;margin:0;list-style-type:none;list-style-image:none}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li{background:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Treeview-grey-line.png")no-repeat 0 -2981px;padding-left:21px;text-indent:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li:last-child{background-position:0 -5971px}.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>.mw-empty-elt:first-child+.emptyline,.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>li:first-child{background-position:0 9px}</style><div class="treeview"> <ul><li>82.18% <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> <ul><li>33.13% <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a></li> <li>49.05% <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> <ul><li>14.74% <a href="/wiki/Pentecostal" class="mw-redirect" title="Pentecostal">Pentecostal</a></li> <li>9.96% <a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodist</a></li> <li>6.62% <a href="/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church" title="Seventh-day Adventist Church">Seventh-day Adventist</a></li> <li>4.72% <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a></li> <li>3.06% <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a></li> <li>1.7% <a href="/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Jehovah's Witnesses">Jehovah's Witnesses</a></li> <li>6.89% Other <a href="/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations" title="List of Christian denominations">Christian</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>7.9% <a href="/wiki/Irreligion" title="Irreligion">No religion</a></li> <li>5.2% <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a></li> <li>2.37% Not stated</li> <li>0.8% Other</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Sint Maartener</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Sint_Maarten" title="Politics of Sint Maarten">Government</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Parliamentary <a href="/wiki/Representative_democracy" title="Representative democracy">representative democracy</a> within a <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy" title="Constitutional monarchy">constitutional monarchy</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Monarchy_of_the_Netherlands" title="Monarchy of the Netherlands">Monarch</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Willem-Alexander_of_the_Netherlands" title="Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands">Willem-Alexander</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Sint_Maarten" title="Governor of Sint Maarten">Governor</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ajamu_Baly" title="Ajamu Baly">Ajamu Baly</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sint_Maarten" title="Prime Minister of Sint Maarten">Prime Minister</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Luc_Mercelina" title="Luc Mercelina">Luc Mercelina</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Legislature</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Sint_Maarten" title="Parliament of Sint Maarten">Parliament of Sint Maarten</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Sint_Maarten" class="mw-redirect" title="Geography of Sint Maarten">Area</a></th></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-pol-div-fake-li">• Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">34<sup id="cite_ref-rijksoverheid.nl_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rijksoverheid.nl-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> km<sup>2</sup> (13 sq mi) (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area" title="List of countries and dependencies by area">191th</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Highest elevation<div 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dependencies by population density">11th</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">GDP</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">(<a href="/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity" title="Purchasing power parity">PPP</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data">2018 estimate</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-pol-div-fake-li">• Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">$1.436 billion<sup id="cite_ref-Factbook_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Factbook-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-pol-div-fake-li">• Per capita</div></th><td class="infobox-data">$35,342<sup id="cite_ref-Factbook_4-1" class="reference"><a 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Antillean guilder</a> (ƒ, <a href="/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">ANG</a>) are official; <a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">United States dollar</a> (<a href="/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">USD</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">Euro</a> (<a href="/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">EUR</a>) also widely used<sup id="cite_ref-USD_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USD-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC-4:00" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC-4:00">UTC-4:00</a> (<a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Time_Zone" title="Atlantic Time Zone">AST</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Mains_electricity" title="Mains electricity">Mains electricity</a></th><td class="infobox-data">120 V–60 Hz</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic" title="Left- and right-hand traffic">Driving side</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Right</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Sint_Maarten" class="mw-redirect" title="Telephone numbers in Sint Maarten">Calling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Area_code_721" title="Area code 721">+1-721</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166-2:SX" title="ISO 3166-2:SX">SX</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166-2:NL" title="ISO 3166-2:NL">NL-SX</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain" title="Country code top-level domain">Internet TLD</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/.sx" title=".sx">.sx</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sint Maarten</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Dutch pronunciation:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="nl-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Dutch" title="Help:IPA/Dutch">[sɪntˈmaːrtə(n)]</a></span> <span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement 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href="/wiki/File:Nl-Sint_Maarten.ogg" title="File:Nl-Sint Maarten.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span>) is a <a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="Countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands">constituent country</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="Kingdom of the Netherlands">Kingdom of the Netherlands</a> located in the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Caribbean region">Caribbean region</a> of <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With a population of 58,477<sup id="cite_ref-:1_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-rijksoverheid.nl_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rijksoverheid.nl-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as of June 2023 on an area of 34 km<sup>2</sup> (13 sq mi), it encompasses the southern 44% of the <a href="/wiki/Divided_island" class="mw-redirect" title="Divided island">divided island</a> of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Martin_(island)" title="Saint Martin (island)">Saint Martin</a>, while the northern 56% of the island constitutes the French <a href="/wiki/Overseas_collectivity" title="Overseas collectivity">overseas collectivity</a> of <a href="/wiki/Collectivity_of_Saint_Martin" title="Collectivity of Saint Martin">Saint Martin</a>. Sint Maarten's <a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">capital</a> is <a href="/wiki/Philipsburg,_Sint_Maarten" title="Philipsburg, Sint Maarten">Philipsburg</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Collectively, Sint Maarten and the other <a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_Netherlands" title="List of islands of the Netherlands">Dutch islands</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a> are often called the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Caribbean" title="Dutch Caribbean">Dutch Caribbean</a>. </p><p>Before 10 October 2010, Sint Maarten was known as the Island Territory of Sint Maarten (<a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>: <i lang="nl">Eilandgebied Sint Maarten</i>), and was one of six (from 1986 five) <a href="/wiki/Island_territories_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" title="Island territories of the Netherlands Antilles">island territories</a> (<span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl">eilandgebieden</i></span>) that constituted the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles" title="Netherlands Antilles">Netherlands Antilles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sint Maarten has the status of an EU overseas country; it is not part of the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>, but is a member of the <a href="/wiki/Overseas_Countries_and_Territories_Association" title="Overseas Countries and Territories Association">Overseas Countries and Territories Association</a>. </p><p>On 6 and 7 September 2017, the island was hit by <a href="/wiki/Saffir%E2%80%93Simpson_scale#Category_5" title="Saffir–Simpson scale">Category 5</a> <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Irma" title="Hurricane Irma">Hurricane Irma</a>, which <a href="#Effects_of_Hurricane_Irma">caused widespread and significant damage</a> to buildings and infrastructure.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Due to confusion on early maps, the island accidentally got the name <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a> had given in honor of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Martin_of_Tours" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Martin of Tours">Saint Martin of Tours</a>, when he first sighted <a href="/wiki/Nevis" title="Nevis">Nevis</a> on the saint's feast day on 11 November 1493. </p><p>"Sint Maarten" is <a href="/wiki/Saint_Martin_(island)" title="Saint Martin (island)">Saint Martin</a> in Dutch. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Saint_Martin" title="History of Saint Martin">History of Saint Martin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Caribbean" title="Dutch Caribbean">Dutch Caribbean</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pre-colonial">Pre-colonial</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pre-colonial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sint Maarten had been inhabited by the <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Caribbean" title="Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean">Amerindian</a> peoples for many centuries, with archaeological finds pointing to a human presence on the island as early as 2000 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These people most likely migrated from South America.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The earliest identified group were the <a href="/wiki/Arawak" title="Arawak">Arawak</a> people who are thought to have settled around the period 800 BC – 300 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Circa 1300–1400 AD they began to be displaced with the arrival of the <a href="/wiki/Kalinago" title="Kalinago">Kalinago</a> people.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arrival_of_Europeans">Arrival of Europeans</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Arrival of Europeans"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Expulsi%C3%B3nDeLosHolandesesDeLaIslaDeSanMart%C3%ADn16330701-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Expulsi%C3%B3nDeLosHolandesesDeLaIslaDeSanMart%C3%ADn16330701-2.jpg/220px-Expulsi%C3%B3nDeLosHolandesesDeLaIslaDeSanMart%C3%ADn16330701-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Expulsi%C3%B3nDeLosHolandesesDeLaIslaDeSanMart%C3%ADn16330701-2.jpg/330px-Expulsi%C3%B3nDeLosHolandesesDeLaIslaDeSanMart%C3%ADn16330701-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Expulsi%C3%B3nDeLosHolandesesDeLaIslaDeSanMart%C3%ADn16330701-2.jpg/440px-Expulsi%C3%B3nDeLosHolandesesDeLaIslaDeSanMart%C3%ADn16330701-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2972" data-file-height="1996" /></a><figcaption>The 1633 Spanish capture of Saint Martin, as painted by Juan de la Corte</figcaption></figure> <p>It is commonly believed that <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a> named the island in honor of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Martin_of_Tours" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Martin of Tours">Saint Martin of Tours</a> when he encountered it on his second voyage of discovery. However, he actually applied the name to the island now called <a href="/wiki/Nevis" title="Nevis">Nevis</a> when he anchored offshore on 11 November 1493, the feast day of Saint Martin. The confusion of numerous poorly charted small islands in the <a href="/wiki/Leeward_Islands" title="Leeward Islands">Leeward Islands</a> meant that this name was accidentally transferred to the island now known as Saint-Martin/Sint Maarten.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nominally Spanish territory, the island became the focus of the competing interests of the European powers, notably the French and Dutch. While the French wanted to colonize the islands between <a href="/wiki/Trinidad" title="Trinidad">Trinidad</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a>, the Dutch found <i>San Martín</i> a convenient halfway point between their colonies in <a href="/wiki/New_Amsterdam" title="New Amsterdam">New Amsterdam</a> (present day <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Brazil" title="Dutch Brazil">New Holland</a>. Meanwhile, the Amerindian population began to decline precipitously, dying from introduced diseases to which they had no immunity. </p><p>The Dutch built a fort (<a href="/wiki/Fort_Amsterdam_(Sint_Maarten)" title="Fort Amsterdam (Sint Maarten)">Fort Amsterdam</a>) on the island in 1631; Jan Claeszen van Campen became its first governor and the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_West_India_Company" title="Dutch West India Company">Dutch West India Company</a> began mining salt on the island. Tensions between the Netherlands and Spain were already high due to the ongoing <a href="/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War" title="Eighty Years' War">Eighty Years' War</a>, and in 1633 the Spanish <a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Saint_Martin_(1633)" title="Capture of Saint Martin (1633)">captured St Martin</a> and drove off the Dutch colonists. At Point Blanche, they built what is now Old Spanish Fort to secure the territory.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The Dutch under <a href="/wiki/Peter_Stuyvesant" title="Peter Stuyvesant">Peter Stuyvesant</a> attempted to <a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Saint_Martin" title="Attack on Saint Martin">wrest back control</a> in 1644, but were repulsed.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, in 1648 the Eighty Years' War ended and the Spanish, no longer seeing any strategic or economic value in the island, simply abandoned it. </p><p>With Saint Martin free again, both the Dutch and the French jumped at the chance to re-establish their settlements.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dutch colonists came from <a href="/wiki/Sint_Eustatius" title="Sint Eustatius">St. Eustatius</a>, while the French came from <a href="/wiki/St._Kitts" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Kitts">St. Kitts</a>. After some initial conflict, both sides realized that neither would yield easily. Preferring to avoid an all-out war, they signed the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Concordia" title="Treaty of Concordia">Treaty of Concordia</a> in 1648, which divided the island in two.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the treaty's negotiation, the French had a fleet of <a href="/wiki/Navy" title="Navy">naval</a> ships off shore, which they used as a threat to bargain more land for themselves.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In spite of the treaty, relations between the two sides were not always cordial. Between 1648 and 1816, conflicts changed the <a href="/wiki/France%E2%80%93Netherlands_border" class="mw-redirect" title="France–Netherlands border">border</a> sixteen times. The entire island came under effective French control from 1795 when Netherlands became a <a href="/wiki/Puppet_state" title="Puppet state">puppet state</a> under the <a href="/wiki/First_French_Empire" title="First French Empire">French Empire</a> until 1815. In the end, the French came out ahead with 53 km<sup>2</sup> (20 sq mi; 61%) against 34 km<sup>2</sup> (13 sq mi; 39%) on the Dutch side. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th–19th_centuries"><span id="18th.E2.80.9319th_centuries"></span>18th–19th centuries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 18th–19th centuries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>To work the new cotton, tobacco, and sugarcane plantations, the French and Dutch began importing large numbers of African slaves, who soon came to outnumber the Europeans.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_11-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The slave population quickly grew larger than that of the land owners. Subjected to cruel treatment, slaves staged rebellions, and their overwhelming numbers made it impossible to ignore their concerns. In 1848, the French <a href="/wiki/Abolitionism#Second_abolition_(1848)_and_subsequent_events" title="Abolitionism">abolished slavery</a> in their colonies including the French side of St. Martin. Slaves on the Dutch side of the island protested and threatened to flee to the French side to seek asylum. The local Dutch authorities then freed the colonies' slaves. While this decree was respected locally, it was not until 1863 when the Dutch abolished slavery in all of their island colonies that the slaves became legally free.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_11-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dr._Claude_Wathey_St._Maarten.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Dr._Claude_Wathey_St._Maarten.JPG/220px-Dr._Claude_Wathey_St._Maarten.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Dr._Claude_Wathey_St._Maarten.JPG/330px-Dr._Claude_Wathey_St._Maarten.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Dr._Claude_Wathey_St._Maarten.JPG/440px-Dr._Claude_Wathey_St._Maarten.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2144" data-file-height="1424" /></a><figcaption>Statue of Claude Wathey in <a href="/wiki/Philipsburg,_Sint_Maarten" title="Philipsburg, Sint Maarten">Philipsburg</a></figcaption></figure> <p>After the abolition of slavery, plantation culture declined and the island's economy suffered. In 1939, Sint Maarten received a major boost when it was declared a <a href="/wiki/Duty-free" class="mw-redirect" title="Duty-free">duty-free</a> port. In 1941, the island was shelled by a <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">German</a> <a href="/wiki/U-boat" title="U-boat">U-boat</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic" title="Battle of the Atlantic">Battle of the Atlantic</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Tourism began growing from the 1950s onward, and <a href="/wiki/Princess_Juliana_International_Airport" title="Princess Juliana International Airport">Princess Juliana International Airport</a> became one of the busiest in the Eastern Caribbean. For much of this period, Sint Maarten was governed by business tycoon <a href="/wiki/Claude_Wathey" title="Claude Wathey">Claude Wathey</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_Sint_Maarten" title="Democratic Party Sint Maarten">Democratic Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The island's demographics changed dramatically during this period as well, with the population increasing from a mere 5,000 people to around 60,000 people by the mid-1990s. Immigration from the neighbouring Lesser Antilles, <a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Curaçao">Curaçao</a>, <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a>, the United States, Europe, and Asia turned the native population into a minority.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sint Maarten became an "island territory" (<i>eilandgebied</i> in <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>) of the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles" title="Netherlands Antilles">Netherlands Antilles</a> in 1983. Before that date, Sint Maarten was part of the island territory of the Windward Islands, together with <a href="/wiki/Saba_(island)" title="Saba (island)">Saba</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sint_Eustatius" title="Sint Eustatius">Sint Eustatius</a>. The status of an island territory entails considerable autonomy summed up in the <a href="/wiki/Island_Regulation_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" class="mw-redirect" title="Island Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles">Island Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles</a>. During this period Sint Maarten was ruled by an island council, an executive council, and a lieutenant governor (<a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>: <i lang="nl">gezaghebber</i>) appointed by the Dutch Crown. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Luis" title="Hurricane Luis">Hurricane Luis</a> in late August and early September 1995 hit the island, causing immense destruction and resulting in 12 deaths.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_11-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21st_century">21st century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 21st century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1994, the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="Kingdom of the Netherlands">Kingdom of the Netherlands</a> and France had signed the <a href="/wiki/Franco-Dutch_treaty_on_Saint_Martin_border_controls" title="Franco-Dutch treaty on Saint Martin border controls">Franco-Dutch treaty on Saint Martin border controls</a>, which allows for joint Franco-Dutch border controls on so-called "risk flights". After some delay, the treaty was ratified in November 2006 in the Netherlands and subsequently entered into force on 1 August 2007. Though the treaty is now in force, its provisions are not yet<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (February 2015)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> implemented as the working group specified in the treaty is not yet installed.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>On 10 October 2010 Sint Maarten became a <a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="Countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands">constituent country</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>: <i lang="nl">Land Sint Maarten</i>) within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, making it a constitutional equal partner with <a href="/wiki/Aruba" title="Aruba">Aruba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Curaçao">Curaçao</a>, and the Netherlands proper. Constitution Day (10 October) is celebrated annually as a <a href="/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Sint_Maarten" title="Public holidays in Sint Maarten">public holiday</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sint Maarten has been assigned the <a href="/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2" title="ISO 3166-1 alpha-2">ISO 3166-1 alpha-2</a> country codes of SXM and SX,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/.sx" title=".sx">.sx</a> Internet <a href="/wiki/CcTLD" class="mw-redirect" title="CcTLD">ccTLD</a> became available to register on 15 November 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Effects_of_Hurricane_Irma">Effects of Hurricane Irma</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Effects of Hurricane Irma"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output 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typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hurricane_Irma_on_Sint_Maarten_(NL)_05.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hurricane_Irma_on_Sint_Maarten_%28NL%29_05.jpg/250px-Hurricane_Irma_on_Sint_Maarten_%28NL%29_05.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hurricane_Irma_on_Sint_Maarten_%28NL%29_05.jpg/330px-Hurricane_Irma_on_Sint_Maarten_%28NL%29_05.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hurricane_Irma_on_Sint_Maarten_%28NL%29_05.jpg/500px-Hurricane_Irma_on_Sint_Maarten_%28NL%29_05.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1250" data-file-height="833" /></a><figcaption>Damaged buildings in the wake of Hurricane Irma</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:St_Maarten_Hurricane_Damage.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/St_Maarten_Hurricane_Damage.jpg/220px-St_Maarten_Hurricane_Damage.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/St_Maarten_Hurricane_Damage.jpg/330px-St_Maarten_Hurricane_Damage.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/St_Maarten_Hurricane_Damage.jpg/440px-St_Maarten_Hurricane_Damage.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3019" data-file-height="2443" /></a><figcaption>Ground view of Hurricane Irma's damage</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Irma" title="Hurricane Irma">Hurricane Irma</a> made landfall on 6 September 2017, causing extensive damage. Four deaths were ultimately reported, and there were 11 serious injuries out of a total of 34.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Princess Juliana Airport was extensively damaged but reopened on a partial basis in two days to allow incoming relief flights and for flights to take evacuees to other islands.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 8 September, "many inhabitants [were] devoid of basic necessities" and looting had become a serious problem.<sup id="cite_ref-Davies_2017_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Davies_2017-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reports on 9 September indicated that 70% of the infrastructure on the Dutch part had been destroyed.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A survey by the Dutch Red Cross estimated that nearly a third of the buildings in Sint Maarten had been destroyed and that over 90% of structures on the island had been damaged.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The prime minister of the Netherlands, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Rutte" title="Mark Rutte">Mark Rutte</a>, told the news media on 8 September that the airport in Sint Maarten was ready to receive emergency flights and that aid, as well as police officers and military personnel, were on their way.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The prime minister of Sint Maarten, <a href="/wiki/William_Marlin" title="William Marlin">William Marlin</a>, had already asked the Dutch government for extended relief assistance which began to arrive on 8 September. The government issued a tropical storm warning on 8 September since the category four <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Jose_(2017)" title="Hurricane Jose (2017)">Hurricane Jose</a> was approaching.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the aftermath of the hurricane, the extensive damage led officials to predict dramatic economic impacts. A statement by Marlin summarized the situation on 8 September: "We've lost many, many homes. Schools have been destroyed. We foresee a loss of the tourist season because of the damage that was done to hotel properties, the negative publicity that one would have that it's better to go somewhere else because it's destroyed. So that will have a serious impact on our economy."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time, preparations were being made as <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Jose_(2017)" title="Hurricane Jose (2017)">Hurricane Jose</a> approached the island.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The government estimated that on 9 September, 70% of houses were badly damaged or destroyed and much of the population was living in shelters ahead of the arrival of Jose. Fortunately, this second hurricane did not have a significant impact on the island.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Widespread looting and violence erupted in the wake of the recovery, and a state of emergency was announced. Two hundred and thirty soldiers from the Netherlands were sent in to stabilize the situation, with additional troops arriving in the coming days.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 10 September, approximately 1,200 Americans had been evacuated to <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a> by military aircraft. On that date, <a href="/wiki/Royal_Caribbean_International" title="Royal Caribbean International">Royal Caribbean International</a> said that the company was sending its <a href="/wiki/Adventure_of_the_Seas" title="Adventure of the Seas">Adventure of the Seas</a> to Sint Maarten and to St. Thomas to provide supplies and to offer evacuation services.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ship arrived on the island on 10 September with water, ice, garbage bags, clothing, and canned food, and evacuated 320 people.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 11 September, King Willem-Alexander had already arrived in Curaçao and was scheduled to visit Sint Maarten, St. Eustatius, and Saba.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Willem-Alexander visited Sint Maarten for the first time post-hurricane, he was shocked by the destruction. He immediately called for support from the European Union so the island could recover swiftly. Later in the month, it was revealed that the EU would allocate €2 billion in emergency funds for immediate disaster relief to restore basic essentials on Sint Maarten, such as drinking water and sanitation.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to the EU's contribution, Red Cross, the government of the Netherlands, and Dutch citizens of the mainland raised money via donations and crowdfunding for the recovery efforts.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Post_hurricane_rebuilding">Post hurricane rebuilding</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Post hurricane rebuilding"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 10 October 2017, Princess Juliana International Airport re-commenced commercial flights<sup id="cite_ref-SXM_Airport_2017_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SXM_Airport_2017-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> using temporary structures, pending repairs.<sup id="cite_ref-SXM_Airport_2018_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SXM_Airport_2018-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A report in late March 2018 indicated that the airport was able to handle some flights and some service had resumed from the US, Canada, and Europe. A new departure lounge was being used during rebuilding of the original facility. The General Aviation building was being used for passengers arriving on the island. </p><p>A little over a year after Hurricane Irma, St Maarten's cruise industry had recovered to the extent that in 2018, more than 1 million cruise passengers visited the island.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Telecommunications, including Wi-Fi, had been restored on the island, 95% of customers were receiving electricity and drinking water was readily available on the island. Some tourist accommodations were open, with 27 operating and 36 said to be ready sometime later this year. Cruise ships were arriving; a full 14 were accommodated the week of 18 February 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><div class="side-box metadata side-box-right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><b>Map all coordinates using</b> <a class="external text" href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/osm4wiki/cgi-bin/wiki/wiki-osm.pl?project=en&article=Sint_Maarten">OpenStreetMap</a> <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" data-expandtext="show links" data-collapsetext="Hide"> <p><b>Download coordinates as:</b> </p> <div class="mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/kmlexport?article=Sint_Maarten">KML</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://geoexport.toolforge.org/gpx?coprimary=all&titles=Sint_Maarten">GPX (all coordinates)</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://geoexport.toolforge.org/gpx?coprimary=primary&titles=Sint_Maarten">GPX (primary coordinates)</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://geoexport.toolforge.org/gpx?coprimary=secondary&titles=Sint_Maarten">GPX (secondary coordinates)</a></li></ul> </div> </div></div></div> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Saint-Martin_Island_topographic_map-en.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Saint-Martin_Island_topographic_map-en.svg/330px-Saint-Martin_Island_topographic_map-en.svg.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Saint-Martin_Island_topographic_map-en.svg/500px-Saint-Martin_Island_topographic_map-en.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Saint-Martin_Island_topographic_map-en.svg/960px-Saint-Martin_Island_topographic_map-en.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2600" data-file-height="1960" /></a><figcaption>Detailed map showing Sint Maarten</figcaption></figure> <p>Sint Maarten occupies the southern part of the island of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Martin_(island)" title="Saint Martin (island)">Saint Martin</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Leeward_Islands" title="Leeward Islands">Leeward Islands</a>; the northern half forms the French territory of <a href="/wiki/Collectivity_of_Saint_Martin" title="Collectivity of Saint Martin">Saint Martin</a>. To the north across the <a href="/wiki/Anguilla_Channel" title="Anguilla Channel">Anguilla Channel</a> lies the British Overseas Territory of <a href="/wiki/Anguilla" title="Anguilla">Anguilla</a>, to the south-east of the island lies the French island of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Barth%C3%A9lemy" title="Saint Barthélemy">Saint Barthélemy</a>, and further south are the Dutch islands of <a href="/wiki/Saba_(island)" title="Saba (island)">Saba</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saint_Eustatius" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Eustatius">Saint Eustatius</a>. </p><p>Sint Maarten is 34 km<sup>2</sup> (13 sq mi).<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The terrain is generally hilly, with the highest peak being <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mount_Flagstaff&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mount Flagstaff (page does not exist)">Mount Flagstaff</a> at 383m, which lies directly on the island's international border.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The area to the west around the airport is flatter, and contains the Dutch section of the <a href="/wiki/Simpson_Bay_Lagoon" title="Simpson Bay Lagoon">Simpson Bay Lagoon</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Great_Salt_Pond,_Sint_Maarten" title="Great Salt Pond, Sint Maarten">Great Salt Pond</a> lies to north of Philipsburg. Several small islands lie off the coast. Little Key lies in the Simpson Bay Lagoon. </p><p>There are ten total islands in Sint Maarten, including:<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Martin_(island)" title="Saint Martin (island)">Saint Martin</a> (southern part), <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818" /><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sint_Maarten&params=18.04167_N_63.06667_W_&title=Sint+Maarten"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">18°02′30″N</span> <span class="longitude">63°04′00″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">18.04167°N 63.06667°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">18.04167; -63.06667</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Sint Maarten</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></li> <li>Cow and Calf Island, <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818" /><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sint_Maarten&params=18.02281_N_63.01221_W_&title=Cow+and+Calf+Island"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">18°01′22″N</span> <span class="longitude">63°00′44″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">18.02281°N 63.01221°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">18.02281; -63.01221</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Cow and Calf Island</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></li> <li>Guana Key of Pelikan, <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818" /><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sint_Maarten&params=18.01806_N_63.01905_W_&title=Guana+Key+of+Pelikan"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">18°01′05″N</span> <span class="longitude">63°01′09″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">18.01806°N 63.01905°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">18.01806; -63.01905</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Guana Key of Pelikan</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></li> <li>Hen and Chicken, <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818" /><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sint_Maarten&params=18_N_63_W_&title=Hen+and+Chicks+Rock"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">18°N</span> <span class="longitude">63°W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">18°N 63°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">18; -63</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Hen and Chicks Rock</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></li> <li>Little Key, <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818" /><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sint_Maarten&params=18.05067_N_63.10976_W_&title=Little+Key"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">18°03′02″N</span> <span class="longitude">63°06′35″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">18.05067°N 63.10976°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">18.05067; -63.10976</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Little Key</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></li> <li>Molly Beday, <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818" /><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sint_Maarten&params=18.02194_N_62.99908_W_&title=Molly+Beday"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">18°01′19″N</span> <span class="longitude">62°59′57″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">18.02194°N 62.99908°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">18.02194; -62.99908</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Molly Beday</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></li> <li>Mona Island, <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818" /><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sint_Maarten&params=18.03333_N_63.11667_W_&title=Mona+Island"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">18°02′00″N</span> <span class="longitude">63°07′00″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">18.03333°N 63.11667°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">18.03333; -63.11667</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Mona Island</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></li> <li>Pelikan Key, <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818" /><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sint_Maarten&params=18.03019_N_63.09837_W_&title=Pelikan+key"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">18°01′49″N</span> <span class="longitude">63°05′54″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">18.03019°N 63.09837°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">18.03019; -63.09837</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Pelikan key</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></li> <li>Pond Island, <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818" /><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sint_Maarten&params=18.031_N_63.04486_W_&title=Pond+Island"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">18°01′52″N</span> <span class="longitude">63°02′41″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">18.031°N 63.04486°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">18.031; -63.04486</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Pond Island</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></li> <li>Snoopy Island, <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818" /><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sint_Maarten&params=18.03611_N_63.09078_W_&title=Snoopy+Island"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">18°02′10″N</span> <span class="longitude">63°05′27″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">18.03611°N 63.09078°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">18.03611; -63.09078</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Snoopy Island</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sint Maarten has a <a href="/wiki/Tropical_savanna_climate" title="Tropical savanna climate">tropical savanna climate</a> (<a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen</a> <i>Aw</i>),<sup id="cite_ref-Philipsburg,_Sint_Maarten_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Philipsburg,_Sint_Maarten-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is drier than most parts of the northeastern Caribbean because of a <a href="/wiki/Rain_shadow" title="Rain shadow">rain shadow</a> from the island's mountains, drying the <a href="/wiki/Trade_winds" title="Trade winds">trade winds</a>. The driest months are from January to July, and the wettest from September to November, when <a href="/wiki/Hurricane" class="mw-redirect" title="Hurricane">hurricanes</a> can strike the island. </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Philipsburg, Sint Maarten (<a href="/wiki/Princess_Juliana_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Princess Juliana Airport">Princess Juliana Airport</a>) 1971–2000 </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF3C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.7<br />(90.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF4400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.6<br />(88.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF3D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.6<br />(90.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF3600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.6<br />(92.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF3700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.5<br />(92.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF3400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.9<br />(93.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF3200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.2<br />(93.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF2C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.1<br />(95.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF2E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.8<br />(94.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF3100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">34.3<br />(93.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF3400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.9<br />(93.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF4000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.1<br />(89.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF2C00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">35.1<br />(95.2) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF5800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.6<br />(83.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF5800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.7<br />(83.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF5400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.2<br />(84.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF5000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.8<br />(85.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF4C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.4<br />(86.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF4600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.3<br />(88.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF4400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.6<br />(88.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF4300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.7<br />(89.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF4400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.6<br />(88.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF4600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.2<br />(88.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF4D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.2<br />(86.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF5400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.2<br />(84.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF4D00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">30.3<br />(86.5) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF6E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.5<br />(77.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF6E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.4<br />(77.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF6C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.7<br />(78.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF6700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.5<br />(79.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF6100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.4<br />(81.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF5B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.2<br />(82.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF5A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.3<br />(82.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF5800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.6<br />(83.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF5900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.5<br />(83.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF5B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.2<br />(82.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF6100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.3<br />(81.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.1<br />(79.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF6200; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">27.2<br />(81.0) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF7E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.2<br />(73.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF7E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.1<br />(73.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF7C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.5<br />(74.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF7700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.1<br />(75.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.1<br />(77.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF7000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.2<br />(77.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.1<br />(79.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF6900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.2<br />(79.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF6A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.0<br />(78.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF6C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.7<br />(78.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF7200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.9<br />(76.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF7900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.9<br />(75.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF7300; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">24.8<br />(76.6) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF9D3C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.6<br />(65.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF9934; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.2<br />(66.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF9730; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.5<br />(67.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF9932; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.3<br />(66.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF9226; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.2<br />(68.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF8409; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.3<br />(72.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF850C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.1<br />(71.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF8A16; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.4<br />(70.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF860D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.0<br />(71.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF850C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.1<br />(71.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF8B18; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.2<br />(70.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF9429; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.0<br />(68.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF9D3C; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">18.6<br />(65.5) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average rainfall mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #9CFF9C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">66.0<br />(2.60) </td> <td style="background: #ACFFAC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">50.7<br />(2.00) </td> <td style="background: #BBFFBB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45.2<br />(1.78) </td> <td style="background: #9CFF9C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64.0<br />(2.52) </td> <td style="background: #73FF73; color:#000000;" class="notheme">93.3<br />(3.67) </td> <td style="background: #9FFF9F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">61.8<br />(2.43) </td> <td style="background: #94FF94; color:#000000;" class="notheme">71.6<br />(2.82) </td> <td style="background: #6BFF6B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">98.8<br />(3.89) </td> <td style="background: #28FF28; color:#000000;" class="notheme">139.6<br />(5.50) </td> <td style="background: #56FF56; color:#000000;" class="notheme">113.0<br />(4.45) </td> <td style="background: #19FF19; color:#000000;" class="notheme">149.3<br />(5.88) </td> <td style="background: #73FF73; color:#000000;" class="notheme">93.8<br />(3.69) </td> <td style="background: #7AFF7A; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1,047.1<br />(41.22) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average rainy days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 1.0 mm)</span> </th> <td style="background: #6C6CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.9 </td> <td style="background: #8181FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.3 </td> <td style="background: #8F8FFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.0 </td> <td style="background: #6868FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.8 </td> <td style="background: #7F7FFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.3 </td> <td style="background: #9393FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.4 </td> <td style="background: #6868FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.2 </td> <td style="background: #5353FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13.9 </td> <td style="background: #5252FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13.5 </td> <td style="background: #5454FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13.8 </td> <td style="background: #4242FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">14.8 </td> <td style="background: #5A5AFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13.3 </td> <td style="background: #6A6AFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">142.0 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Relative_humidity" class="mw-redirect" title="Relative humidity">relative humidity</a> (%) </th> <td style="background: #0000E0; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">74.7 </td> <td style="background: #0000E2; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">74.1 </td> <td style="background: #0000E4; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">73.6 </td> <td style="background: #0000DF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">75.0 </td> <td style="background: #0000DB; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">75.9 </td> <td style="background: #0000DE; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">75.1 </td> <td style="background: #0000DF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">74.8 </td> <td style="background: #0000DD; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">75.4 </td> <td style="background: #0000DA; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">76.3 </td> <td style="background: #0000D8; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">76.8 </td> <td style="background: #0000D5; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">77.4 </td> <td style="background: #0000D9; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">76.6 </td> <td style="background: #0000DD; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">75.5 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean monthly <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a> </th> <td style="background: #E4E400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">257.2 </td> <td style="background: #E4E400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">235.2 </td> <td style="background: #E8E800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">271.6 </td> <td style="background: #E8E800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">265.4 </td> <td style="background: #E3E300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">251.0 </td> <td style="background: #E3E300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">245.1 </td> <td style="background: #E4E400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">257.2 </td> <td style="background: #EBEB04; color:#000000;" class="notheme">288.1 </td> <td style="background: #E0E000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">232.4 </td> <td style="background: #E1E100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">244.6 </td> <td style="background: #E1E100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">235.0 </td> <td style="background: #E2E200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">246.7 </td> <td style="background: #E4E400; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">3,009.4 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Percentage <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">possible sunshine</a> </th> <td style="background: #FFFF92; color:#000000;" class="notheme">73.5 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF8F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">72.7 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF8D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">72.2 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF87; color:#000000;" class="notheme">70.6 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF65; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62.4 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF63; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF68; color:#000000;" class="notheme">63.2 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF7B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">67.7 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF67; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62.8 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF78; color:#000000;" class="notheme">67.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF7D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68.3 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF8A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">71.4 </td> <td style="background: #FFFF7B; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">67.8 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: Meteorological Department Curaçao<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government_and_politics">Government and politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Government and politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Sint_Maarten" title="Politics of Sint Maarten">Politics of Sint Maarten</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png/330px-EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="203" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png/500px-EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png/960px-EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png 2x" data-file-width="2206" data-file-height="1358" /></a><figcaption>The European Union and the UK (prior to the latter's departure) in the world with overseas countries and territories and outermost regions</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Status_within_the_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands">Status within the Kingdom of the Netherlands</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Status within the Kingdom of the Netherlands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sint Maarten is a <b>constituent country</b> of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="Kingdom of the Netherlands">Kingdom of the Netherlands</a>, and as such the <a href="/wiki/Monarch_of_the_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="Monarch of the Netherlands">monarch of the Netherlands</a> is head of state, represented locally by a <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Sint_Maarten" title="Governor of Sint Maarten">governor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the dissolution of the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles" title="Netherlands Antilles">Netherlands Antilles</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Sint_Maarten" title="Constitution of Sint Maarten">Constitution of Sint Maarten</a> was unanimously adopted by the island council of Sint Maarten on 21 July 2010. Elections for a new island council <a href="/wiki/Sint_Maarten_general_election,_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="Sint Maarten general election, 2010">were held on 17 September 2010</a>, since the number of seats was increased from 11 to 15. The newly elected island council became the <a href="/wiki/Estates_of_Sint_Maarten" class="mw-redirect" title="Estates of Sint Maarten">Estates of Sint Maarten</a> on 10 October.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sint Maarten is largely autonomous in internal affairs, with the Netherlands responsible for foreign diplomacy and defence.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_10-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first woman to be the president of Sint Maarten was <a href="/wiki/Gracita_Arrindell" title="Gracita Arrindell">Gracita Arrindell</a>, who was first elected in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There currently is a movement in Sint Maarten aiming for <a href="/wiki/Unification_of_Saint_Martin" title="Unification of Saint Martin">the unification of island of Saint Martin</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which has its own flag.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Relation_to_the_European_Union">Relation to the European Union</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Relation to the European Union"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sint Maarten is classified as an <b>Overseas Country and Territory</b> (OCT)<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <b>Annex II</b> of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This annex lists all the territories that have special relationships with the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> due to their connection with EU member states but are not part of the Union itself. </p><p>Being classified as an OCT Sint Maarten is not part of the European Union. The status of Sint Maarten is outlined in Article 355(2)<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in conjunction with Part Four —Articles 198 to 204— of the TFEU. Key points include: </p> <ul><li><b>Article 198</b> states that the European Union maintains special relationships with the OCTs, which are under the sovereignty of EU member states but are not part of the EU.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Article 199</b> specifies that these OCTs have a special status, meaning they are not part of the EU’s internal market or customs union but benefit from special cooperation and development aid.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>This classification means that while Sint Maarten benefits from economic and developmental cooperation with the EU, it does not participate in EU institutions or policies as full member states do.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_policy_and_defence">Foreign policy and defence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Foreign policy and defence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Kingdom of the Netherlands has overarching responsibility for foreign relations, defence and Dutch nationality law in the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A detachment of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Netherlands_Marine_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Netherlands Marine Corps">Royal Netherlands Marine Corps</a> is present on Sint Maarten and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Netherlands_Navy" title="Royal Netherlands Navy">Royal Netherlands Navy</a> deploys a guardship, normally a <a href="/wiki/Holland-class_offshore_patrol_vessel" title="Holland-class offshore patrol vessel"><i>Holland</i>-class</a> <a href="/wiki/Offshore_patrol_vessel" class="mw-redirect" title="Offshore patrol vessel">offshore patrol vessel</a>, in the Caribbean on a rotational basis together with the support vessel <a href="/wiki/HNLMS_Pelikaan_(A804)" title="HNLMS Pelikaan (A804)">HNLMS <i>Pelikaan</i></a> which operates out of Curacao.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Caribbean_Coast_Guard" title="Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard">Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard</a>, directed by the commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy in the Caribbean, operates throughout the Caribbean and is funded by the four constituent countries of the Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Environmental_laws">Environmental laws</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Environmental laws"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The beach policy (as of 1994)<sup id="cite_ref-Ministry_Policies_and_Reports_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ministry_Policies_and_Reports-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> views the beach from the perspective of being an <a href="/wiki/Ecosystem_service" title="Ecosystem service">ecosystem service</a> for recreational activities. This is because the economy on Sint Maarten is tourism-driven, and many tourists come to the island to enjoy the 37 beaches on the island. The policy has three main points: the beach must be usable for everyone, developments negatively affecting recreational use will be prevented, and beaches should be protected against human influences that could impair their recreational function. The policy's main purpose is to protect the recreational value of the beach. The laws do not consider the protection and ecological value of this habitat in regard to protecting nesting <a href="/wiki/Sea_turtle" title="Sea turtle">sea turtles</a>, preserving the beach line, or preserving the plants that live in and along the beach line. </p><p>The hillside policy, as of 1998,<sup id="cite_ref-Ministry_Policies_and_Reports_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ministry_Policies_and_Reports-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is mainly concerned with residential development. On the hillside, only residential development is permitted, certain hillsides with important "visual impact" are protected and conserved for their general landscape. A natural park is projected for the following hills: Cole Bay Hill, Sentry Hill, St. Peters Hill, Concordia Hill, Marigot Hill, Waymouth Hill, and Williams Hill. The policy stated the main objective was to conserve and maintain the green hillside and restore any natural habitats if needed. However, as of 2020, these natural parks had not yet been established. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Corruption">Corruption</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Corruption"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1978, the government of the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles" title="Netherlands Antilles">Netherlands Antilles</a> installed a Research Committee on the <a href="/wiki/Windward_Islands" title="Windward Islands">Windward Islands</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>: <i lang="nl">Commissie van Onderzoek Bovenwindse Eilanden</i>) to investigate claims of corruption in the island government. Even though the report issued by this commission was damaging for the island's government, measures were not put into place to curb corruption, arguably because the government of the Netherlands Antilles depended on the support of Wathey's Democratic Party in the <a href="/wiki/Estates_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" class="mw-redirect" title="Estates of the Netherlands Antilles">Estates of the Netherlands Antilles</a>. In August 1990, the public prosecutor of the Netherlands Antilles started an investigation into the alleged ties between the island government of Sint Maarten and the <a href="/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia" title="Sicilian Mafia">Sicilian Mafia</a>, and in 1991 the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Audit" title="Court of Audit">Court of Audit</a> of the Netherlands Antilles issued a report which concluded that the island government of Sint Maarten was ailing.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the government and parliament of the Netherlands, the call for measures became louder. With Dutch pressure, the government of the Netherlands Antilles installed the <a href="/wiki/Miguel_Pourier" title="Miguel Pourier">Pourier</a> Commission tasked with investigating the state of affairs of the island government of Sint Maarten in December 1991. Its report concluded that the island was in a severe financial crisis, that rules of democratic decision-making were continuously broken, and that the island government constituted an <a href="/wiki/Oligarchy" title="Oligarchy">oligarchy</a>. In short, the island government failed completely according to the report. After long negotiations, the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Ministers_of_the_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of the Netherlands">Kingdom government</a> enacted a General Measure of Kingdom Administration (<a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>: <i lang="nl">Algemene Maatregel van Rijksbestuur</i>) in early 1993, placing Sint Maarten under direct supervision of the Kingdom. Although originally meant for one year, the Order-in-Council for the Kingdom was eventually extended until 1 March 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><span class="citation-needed-content" style="padding-left:0.1em; padding-right:0.1em; color:var(--color-subtle, #54595d); border:1px solid var(--border-color-subtle, #c8ccd1);">Though much has changed since,</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> allegations of criminal activities continue to plague Sint Maarten. In 2004, the Minister of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles asked the Scientific Research and Documentation Centre (<a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>: <i lang="nl">Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Documentatiecentrum</i> (WODC)) of the Dutch Ministry of Justice to conduct research into organized crime in Sint Maarten. The report concluded that <a href="/wiki/Money_laundering" title="Money laundering">money laundering</a> and cocaine trade are widespread on Sint Maarten. It also alleged that money from the island was used to finance <a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a>, its associate <a href="/wiki/Holy_Land_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy Land Foundation">Holy Land Foundation</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2009, former Commissioner Louie Laveist was convicted, and sentenced to an 18-month prison sentence, by the Sint Maarten Court-of-First-Instance, on account of forgery, fraud, and bribery.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was later acquitted of forgery and of fraud by the <a href="/wiki/Common_Court_of_Justice_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_and_Aruba" class="mw-redirect" title="Common Court of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba">Common Court of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba</a>, but not of bribery.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ecology">Ecology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Ecology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plants">Plants</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Plants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sint Maarten is home to many distinctive plants such as <a href="/wiki/Hibiscus_rosa-sinensis" class="mw-redirect" title="Hibiscus rosa-sinensis">hibiscus</a>, yellow sage (seen on the flag), <a href="/wiki/Delonix_regia" title="Delonix regia">flamboyant trees</a>, mahogany, and cacti. An estimated 522 wild plants are present, mainly being seed plants and a few ferns. The <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Calyptranthes_boldinghgii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Calyptranthes boldinghgii (page does not exist)">Calyptranthes boldinghgii</a></i> and <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Galactia_nummelaria&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Galactia nummelaria (page does not exist)">Galactia nummelaria</a></i> are "<a href="/wiki/Island_endemic" class="mw-redirect" title="Island endemic">island-endemic</a>", and it is suspected that they have already gone extinct. Much of the hilltops are semi-evergreen seasonal forests which are rare in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The categorization of native, introduced, and invasive plant species is not as well documented for the island. Some of the introduced plant species include: manila grass (<i><a href="/wiki/Zoysia_matrella" title="Zoysia matrella">Zoysia matrella</a></i>), Spanish bayonet ( <a href="/wiki/Yucca_aloifolia" title="Yucca aloifolia">Y<i>ucca aloifolia</i></a>), Singapore almond (<i><a href="/wiki/Terminalia_catappa" title="Terminalia catappa">Terminalia catappa</a></i>), true aloe (<i><a href="/wiki/Aloe_vera" title="Aloe vera">Aloe vera</a></i>). Some of the native species are west Indian holly (<i><a href="/wiki/Turnera_ulmifolia" title="Turnera ulmifolia">Tunera ulmifolia</a></i>), spiny amaranth (<i><a href="/wiki/Amaranthus_spinosus" title="Amaranthus spinosus">Amaranthus spinosus</a></i>), bell pepper (C<i>apsium pulcherrima</i>), salt heliotrope (<i><a href="/wiki/Heliotropium_curassavicum" title="Heliotropium curassavicum">Heliotropium curassavicum</a></i>), bay rum tree (<i>pimento racemose</i>), and sourbush (<i>pluchea carolinesis</i>). One of the invasive species on the island is crowfoot grass (<i><a href="/wiki/Dactyloctenium_aegyptium" title="Dactyloctenium aegyptium">Dactyloctenium aegyptium</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mullet_Pond">Mullet Pond</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Mullet Pond"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mullet Pond, a section of the inland lagoon <a href="/wiki/Simpson_Bay_Lagoon" title="Simpson Bay Lagoon">Simpson Bay Lagoon</a>, is home to 70% of Sint Maarten's mangrove population on the Dutch side of the island. <a href="/wiki/Mangrove" title="Mangrove">Mangroves</a> are a nursery for many young fish and during hurricane season they provide coastal protection. The area, however, is at risk due to dredging, tourism activities, and the yacht industry on the island. </p><p>Mullet Pond became the 55th <a href="/wiki/Ramsar_site" title="Ramsar site">Ramsar site</a> in 2016<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is therefore protected according to the Ramsar Treaty, a global commitment to protect ecologically significant wetland areas. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Challenges">Challenges</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Challenges"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The effects of <a href="/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming">climate change</a> are felt on Sint Maarten. According to the Netherlands Antilles Coral Reef Initiative, the coral reefs were fragmented due to a temperature rise to 30 °C in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Twenty years ago [when?], the sea grass beds were much larger. Natural disasters (hurricanes), development, and the tourist industry caused a significant decrease over the years. The <a href="/wiki/Seagrass_meadow" title="Seagrass meadow">seagrass beds</a> are important for anchoring the sand in place, as well as for hurricane protection.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_68-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Without the seagrass bed, sand can be moved easily by a hurricane, resulting in the loss of beaches or sand accumulates in one area, affecting marine life. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Philipsburg_%E2%80%93_Boardwalk_-_Catholic_Church_St._Martin_of_Tours_-_panoramio.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Philipsburg_%E2%80%93_Boardwalk_-_Catholic_Church_St._Martin_of_Tours_-_panoramio.jpg/250px-Philipsburg_%E2%80%93_Boardwalk_-_Catholic_Church_St._Martin_of_Tours_-_panoramio.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Philipsburg_%E2%80%93_Boardwalk_-_Catholic_Church_St._Martin_of_Tours_-_panoramio.jpg/330px-Philipsburg_%E2%80%93_Boardwalk_-_Catholic_Church_St._Martin_of_Tours_-_panoramio.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Philipsburg_%E2%80%93_Boardwalk_-_Catholic_Church_St._Martin_of_Tours_-_panoramio.jpg/500px-Philipsburg_%E2%80%93_Boardwalk_-_Catholic_Church_St._Martin_of_Tours_-_panoramio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3869" data-file-height="2992" /></a><figcaption>Catholic Church St. Martin of Tours in Philipsburg</figcaption></figure> <p>In the 2011 Netherlands Antilles census, the population of the island territory was 33,609.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 2017 census the total population of the country was 40,535.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2023 a total of 58,477 persons had been registered in the country’s Department of Civil Registry.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sint Maarten is one of the most international and diverse islands of the Caribbean. With over 120 nationalities,<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 2/3 of Sint Maarten's population being foreign born.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sint Maarten's population is descended from various people groups including <a href="/wiki/Afro-Caribbean_people" title="Afro-Caribbean people">Afro-Caribbeans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Europe" title="Ethnic groups in Europe">Europeans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latin_Americans" title="Latin Americans">Latin-Americans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Levant" title="Levant">Levantine Arabs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_South_Asia" title="Ethnic groups in South Asia">South-Asians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Asian_people" title="East Asian people">East Asians</a> and many others.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Settlements">Settlements</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Settlements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philipsburg,_Sint_Maarten" title="Philipsburg, Sint Maarten">Philipsburg</a> (1,894 inhabitants)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lower_Prince%27s_Quarter" title="Lower Prince's Quarter">Lower Prince's Quarter</a> (10,833 inhabitants)</li> <li>Cul de Sac (8,588 inhabitants)</li> <li>Cole Bay (7,194 inhabitants)</li> <li>Upper Prince's Quarter (4,595 inhabitants)</li> <li>Little Bay (Fort Amsterdam) (5,581 inhabitants)</li> <li>Simpson Bay (1,142 inhabitants)</li> <li>Lowlands (708 inhabitants)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Structure_of_the_population">Structure of the population</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Structure of the population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1214851843">.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{box-sizing:border-box;width:100%;padding:5px;border:none;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .hidden-title{font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .hidden-content{text-align:left}@media all and (max-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{width:auto!important;clear:none!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="background:#EEBC35;">Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.I.2018): <sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style=""> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th width="80pt">Age Group </th> <th width="80pt">Male </th> <th width="80pt">Female </th> <th width="80pt">Total </th> <th width="80pt">% </th></tr> <tr> <td align="right">Total </td> <td align="right">19 759 </td> <td align="right">20 855 </td> <td align="right">40 614 </td> <td align="right">100 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">0–4 </td> <td align="right">1 349 </td> <td align="right">1 265 </td> <td align="right">2 614 </td> <td align="right">6.44 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">5–9 </td> <td align="right">1 437 </td> <td align="right">1 336 </td> <td align="right">2 773 </td> <td align="right">6.83 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">10–14 </td> <td align="right">1 387 </td> <td align="right">1 354 </td> <td align="right">2 741 </td> <td align="right">6.75 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">15–19 </td> <td align="right">1 360 </td> <td align="right">1 361 </td> <td align="right">2 721 </td> <td align="right">6.70 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">20–24 </td> <td align="right">1 139 </td> <td align="right">1 025 </td> <td align="right">2 165 </td> <td align="right">5.33 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">25–29 </td> <td align="right">1 142 </td> <td align="right">1 324 </td> <td align="right">2 466 </td> <td align="right">6.07 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">30–34 </td> <td align="right">1 432 </td> <td align="right">1 651 </td> <td align="right">3 083 </td> <td align="right">7.59 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">35–39 </td> <td align="right">1 510 </td> <td align="right">1 832 </td> <td align="right">3 342 </td> <td align="right">8.23 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">40–44 </td> <td align="right">1 651 </td> <td align="right">1 895 </td> <td align="right">3 546 </td> <td align="right">8.73 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">45–49 </td> <td align="right">1 665 </td> <td align="right">1 806 </td> <td align="right">3 471 </td> <td align="right">8.55 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">50–54 </td> <td align="right">1 727 </td> <td align="right">1 719 </td> <td align="right">3 446 </td> <td align="right">8.48 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">55–59 </td> <td align="right">1 348 </td> <td align="right">1 447 </td> <td align="right">2 795 </td> <td align="right">6.88 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">60–64 </td> <td align="right">1 091 </td> <td align="right">1 132 </td> <td align="right">2 223 </td> <td align="right">5.47 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">65-69 </td> <td align="right">759 </td> <td align="right">813 </td> <td align="right">1 573 </td> <td align="right">3.87 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">70-74 </td> <td align="right">431 </td> <td align="right">450 </td> <td align="right">881 </td> <td align="right">2.17 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">75-79 </td> <td align="right">207 </td> <td align="right">223 </td> <td align="right">430 </td> <td align="right">1.06 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">80-84 </td> <td align="right">93 </td> <td align="right">125 </td> <td align="right">217 </td> <td align="right">0.53 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">85-89 </td> <td align="right">18 </td> <td align="right">61 </td> <td align="right">79 </td> <td align="right">0.19 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">90+ </td> <td align="right">11 </td> <td align="right">36 </td> <td align="right">47 </td> <td align="right">0.12 </td></tr> <tr> <th width="50">Age group </th> <th width="80pt">Male </th> <th width="80">Female </th> <th width="80">Total </th> <th width="50">Percent </th></tr> <tr> <td align="right">0–14 </td> <td align="right">4 173 </td> <td align="right">3 955 </td> <td align="right">8 128 </td> <td align="right">20.01 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">15–64 </td> <td align="right">14 067 </td> <td align="right">15 192 </td> <td align="right">29 259 </td> <td align="right">72.04 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="right">65+ </td> <td align="right">1 519 </td> <td align="right">1 708 </td> <td align="right">3 227 </td> <td align="right">7.95 </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="barbox tleft" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:auto; background: var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,white); color: var(--color-base,black)"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Religions of Sint Maarten<sup id="cite_ref-CIAPAPUANEWGUINEA_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIAPAPUANEWGUINEA-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;">Religions</td> <td style="width:100px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;">percent</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic </a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Blue; width:33.1%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">33.1%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Pentecostal" class="mw-redirect" title="Pentecostal">Pentecostal</a> </td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:silver; width:14.7%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">14.7%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodist</a> </td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Green; width:10.0%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">10.0%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"> None </td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:blue; width:7.9%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">7.9%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist" class="mw-redirect" title="Seventh-day Adventist">Seventh-day Adventist</a> </td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:red; width:6.6%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">6.6%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hindu</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Orange; width:5.2%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">5.2%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> </td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:red; width: 4.1%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;"> 4.1%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:blue; width:4.7%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">4.7%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglican</a> </td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Pink; width: 3.1%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;"> 3.1%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"> No response</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:red; width:2.4%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2.4%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"> Other <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Cyan; width:2.8%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">2.8%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witness" class="mw-redirect" title="Jehovah's Witness">Jehovah's Witness</a> </td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Black; width: 1.7%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;"> 1.7%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"> <a href="/wiki/Evangelical" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical">Evangelical</a> </td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:orange; width:1.4%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.4%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Other (includes <a href="/wiki/Buddhist" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhist">Buddhist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sikhism" title="Sikhism">Sikh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rastafarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Rastafarian">Rastafarian</a>) </td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Purple; width:1.3%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.3%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"> <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>/<a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Jewish</a> </td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Green; width:1.1%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">1.1%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Languages">Languages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="barbox tleft" style="overflow-x: auto;"> <div style="border:1px solid silver; font-size:88%; padding:0.4em; width:auto; background: var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,white); color: var(--color-base,black)"> <table style="text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd"><th style="text-align:center;" colspan="5">Primary Languages of Sint Maarten<sup id="cite_ref-CIAPAPUANEWGUINEA_75-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIAPAPUANEWGUINEA-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th></tr> <tr style="font-size:88%; height:4px;"> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; text-align:left;">Languages</td> <td style="width:100px; text-align:left;"></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0 4px; width:1em; text-align:right;">percent</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> </td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Orange; width:67.5%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">67.5%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Blue; width:12.9%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">12.9%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Creole_language" title="Creole language">Creole</a> </td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:silver; width:8.2%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">8.2%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> </td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:red; width:6.6%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">6.6%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"><a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> </td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Green; width:4.2%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">4.2%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;">Other</td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:Yellow; width:3.5%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;">3.5%</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; min-width: 8em;"> <a href="/wiki/Papiamento" title="Papiamento">Papiamento </a></td> <td style="width: 100px; border-left: solid 1px silver; border-right: solid 1px silver;"><div style="background:blue; width: 1.5%; overflow: hidden;"> </div></td> <td colspan="2" style="padding-left: 1.2em; padding-right: 0.4em; text-align: right;"> 1.5%</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <p><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> is the everyday language of communication in Sint Maarten, and the first language of native Sint Maarteners.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_10-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A local variety of <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Islands_Creole" title="Virgin Islands Creole">Virgin Islands Creole</a> is spoken in informal situations by Sint Maarteners between themselves. Though it holds official status, <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> is learned by most Sint Maarteners as a second language, and generally used only when communicating with other Dutch speakers. </p><p>The government uses Dutch when in communication with the national government and also formerly did so with the Netherlands Antilles government. Local signage uses both Dutch and English.<sup id="cite_ref-Klompp80_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Klompp80-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historically there were English-medium and Dutch-medium schools on Sint Maarten, but Dutch government policy towards St. Maarten and other SSS islands eventually promoted English-medium education. </p><p>Sint Maarten is a <a href="/wiki/Multilingualism" title="Multilingualism">polyglot</a> society, most are <a href="/wiki/Simultaneous_bilingualism" title="Simultaneous bilingualism">simultaneously bilingual</a> in Dutch and English, and among them are also speakers of <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> and <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>, the latter of which is official on the other side of the island (<a href="/wiki/Collectivity_of_Saint_Martin" title="Collectivity of Saint Martin">Saint-Martin</a>). Linguist Linda-Andrea Richardson stated in 1983 that Dutch was a "<a href="/wiki/Dead_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Dead language">dead language</a>" in Sint Maarten.<sup id="cite_ref-Sociolinguisticsp2108_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sociolinguisticsp2108-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some residents including Arubans, Curaçaoans and St. Maarteners who lived on the <a href="/wiki/ABC_islands_(Leeward_Antilles)" title="ABC islands (Leeward Antilles)">ABC Islands</a>, speak <a href="/wiki/Papiamento" title="Papiamento">Papiamento</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many Spanish speakers are from the <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a>. Dominicans make up the largest group of legal immigrants.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Saint_Maarten,_Dutch_Side.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Saint_Maarten%2C_Dutch_Side.jpg/220px-Saint_Maarten%2C_Dutch_Side.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Saint_Maarten%2C_Dutch_Side.jpg/330px-Saint_Maarten%2C_Dutch_Side.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Saint_Maarten%2C_Dutch_Side.jpg/440px-Saint_Maarten%2C_Dutch_Side.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2559" data-file-height="1655" /></a><figcaption>Many tourists come to use Sint Maarten's beaches.</figcaption></figure> <p>Sint Maarten, along with <a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Curaçao">Curaçao</a>, uses two co-circulating currencies: the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antillean_guilder" title="Netherlands Antillean guilder">Netherlands Antillean guilder</a> and its successor, the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_guilder" title="Caribbean guilder">Caribbean guilder</a>; the former will be withdrawn as legal tender on 1 July 2025.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">United States dollar</a> is also widely used.<sup id="cite_ref-USD_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USD-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The economy is heavily dependent on tourism, either from long-stays or day-trippers from the many <a href="/wiki/Cruise_line" title="Cruise line">cruise lines</a> that dock in the <a href="/wiki/Philipsburg,_Sint_Maarten" title="Philipsburg, Sint Maarten">Philipsburg</a> Harbour; around 80% of the workforce is employed in this sector.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_10-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some limited agriculture occurs, however most food is imported.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_10-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, St. Maarten had more gaming machines per resident than any other country in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hurricane Irma severely affected the economy in 2017. In a 2019 report, it was revealed that the island's GDP had dropped by 4.7%, with an increase in inflation.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This drastic hit to the economy was due to lessened tourism, real estate, trade, and business activities.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Saint_Martin" class="mw-redirect" title="Culture of Saint Martin">Culture of Saint Martin</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CourthouseSXM.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/CourthouseSXM.png/250px-CourthouseSXM.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/CourthouseSXM.png/330px-CourthouseSXM.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/CourthouseSXM.png/500px-CourthouseSXM.png 2x" data-file-width="776" data-file-height="840" /></a><figcaption>Courthouse on Sint Maarten</figcaption></figure> <p>Sint Maarten's culture is a mix of African, European and North American influences. Ank Klomp wrote in <i>Saint Martin: Communal Identities on a Divided Caribbean Island</i> that Sint Maarten lacked a Dutch cultural identity.<sup id="cite_ref-Klompp80_76-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Klompp80-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Festivals">Festivals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Festivals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An annual <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten_Heineken_Regatta&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sint Maarten Heineken Regatta (page does not exist)">regatta</a> is held over three days culminating in the first weekend in March. Among the leading cultural artists of the island are Isidore "Mighty Dow" York (<a href="/wiki/Kaiso" title="Kaiso">kaisonian</a>, panman), Roland Richardson (<a href="/wiki/Impressionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Impressionist">Impressionist</a> painter), <a href="/wiki/Nicole_de_Weever" title="Nicole de Weever">Nicole de Weever</a> (dancer, broadway star), Ruby Bute (painter, storyteller, poet), Clara Reyes (choreographer), Susha Hien (choreographer), <a href="/wiki/Lasana_M._Sekou" title="Lasana M. Sekou">Lasana M. Sekou</a> (poet, author, independence advocate), <a href="/wiki/Drisana_Deborah_Jack" class="mw-redirect" title="Drisana Deborah Jack">Drisana Deborah Jack</a> (visual artist, poet), and Tanny and The Boys (string band music group). The annual St. Maarten Carnival starts in April and ends in May. The Grand Carnival parade that takes place on the Dutch side is the largest parade of the island's two carnivals. The annual St. Martin Book Fair takes place during the first weekend of June, featuring emerging and famous authors from the island, the Caribbean region, and from around the world.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sport">Sport</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Popular team sports in Sint Maarten include <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">basketball</a>, <a href="/wiki/Volleyball" title="Volleyball">volleyball</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricket</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Soccer" class="mw-redirect" title="Soccer">soccer</a>. <a href="/wiki/Recreational_fishing" title="Recreational fishing">Recreational fishing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Golf" title="Golf">golf</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Water_sports" class="mw-redirect" title="Water sports">water sports</a> (including <a href="/wiki/Underwater_diving" title="Underwater diving">diving</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kayaking" title="Kayaking">kayaking</a>, <a href="/wiki/Snorkelling" class="mw-redirect" title="Snorkelling">snorkelling</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Yachting" title="Yachting">yachting</a>) are popular amongst tourists.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Sint_Maarten_Soccer_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Sint Maarten Soccer Association">Sint Maarten Soccer Association</a> was founded in 1986. The organisation is not a member of <a href="/wiki/FIFA" title="FIFA">FIFA</a>, but became an associate member of <a href="/wiki/CONCACAF" title="CONCACAF">CONCACAF</a> in 2002, and a full member in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Sint_Maarten_national_football_team" title="Sint Maarten national football team">The national football team</a> debuted in 1989, and plays its home games at the <a href="/wiki/Raoul_Illidge_Sports_Complex" title="Raoul Illidge Sports Complex">Raoul Illidge Sports Complex</a>, which has a 3,000-spectator capacity. After an initial period of popularity during the 1990s, including an appearance at the <a href="/wiki/1993_Caribbean_Cup" title="1993 Caribbean Cup">1993 Caribbean Cup</a>, interest in football declined, with the national team playing its last official match in 2000 (against <a href="/wiki/Dominica_national_football_team" title="Dominica national football team">Dominica</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Sint Maarten returned to international competition in March 2016, for the <a href="/wiki/2017_Caribbean_Cup_qualification" title="2017 Caribbean Cup qualification">2017 Caribbean Cup qualification</a> tournament.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Sint Maarten Cricket Association is a member of the <a href="/wiki/Leeward_Islands_Cricket_Association" title="Leeward Islands Cricket Association">Leeward Islands Cricket Association</a> (LICA), which is, in turn, a member of <a href="/wiki/Cricket_West_Indies" title="Cricket West Indies">Cricket West Indies</a>. With rare exceptions (for instance, the <a href="/wiki/Stanford_20/20" title="Stanford 20/20">Stanford 20/20</a>), <a href="/wiki/Sint_Maarten_national_cricket_team" title="Sint Maarten national cricket team">the national cricket team</a> plays only against other LICA members, though Sint Maarteners may go on to play for the <a href="/wiki/Leeward_Islands_cricket_team" title="Leeward Islands cricket team">Leeward Islands team</a> at regional level and are eligible for both the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team" title="West Indies cricket team">West Indies</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_national_cricket_team" title="Netherlands national cricket team">Netherlands</a> internationally like <a href="/wiki/Kacey_Carty" class="mw-redirect" title="Kacey Carty">Kacey Carty</a> was when he made international cricket debut first for the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies_Under-19_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="West Indies Under-19 cricket team">West Indies Under-19</a> and then ultimately for the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies_cricket_team" title="West Indies cricket team">West Indies</a>. The primary venue for cricket is the <a href="/wiki/Carib_Lumber_Ball_Park" title="Carib Lumber Ball Park">Charles Vlaun Cricket Field</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Colin_Hamer" title="Colin Hamer">Colin Hamer</a> was the first Sint Maartener to play <a href="/wiki/First-class_cricket" title="First-class cricket">first-class cricket</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Doram" title="Daniel Doram">Daniel Doram</a> was the first islander to play at international level, debuting for the Netherlands against Ireland in the <a href="/wiki/ICC_Intercontinental_Cup" title="ICC Intercontinental Cup">Intercontinental Cup</a> in July 2013 at the age of 15, also becoming the first St. Maartener to take a first-class five-wicket haul. In 2016 <a href="/wiki/Kacey_Carty" class="mw-redirect" title="Kacey Carty">Kacey Carty</a> became the first St Maartener to play representative cricket for the West Indies (for the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies_under-19_cricket_team" title="West Indies under-19 cricket team">West Indies under-19s</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Carty was the man of the final at the <a href="/wiki/2016_Under-19_Cricket_World_Cup" title="2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup">2016 Under-19 World Cup</a>, and was later described by the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sint_Maarten" title="Prime Minister of Sint Maarten">prime minister</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Marlin" title="William Marlin">William Marlin</a>, as having "brought the name of St Maarten to international acclaim".<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prior to cricket becoming popular, baseball was preferred. No national team existed, although Sint Maarteners were eligible to play for the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles_national_baseball_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Netherlands Antilles national baseball team">Netherlands Antilles baseball team</a> before its dissolution.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several Sint Maarteners have passed through the <a href="/wiki/Baseball_in_the_United_States" title="Baseball in the United States">American baseball system</a>, playing at <a href="/wiki/College_baseball" title="College baseball">college level</a> or in the <a href="/wiki/Minor_League_Baseball" title="Minor League Baseball">minor leagues</a>. Allen Halley played college baseball for the <a href="/wiki/South_Alabama_Jaguars" title="South Alabama Jaguars">South Alabama Jaguars</a> and was drafted by the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> in the 30th round of the <a href="/wiki/1995_Major_League_Baseball_draft" title="1995 Major League Baseball draft">1995 draft</a>, reaching <a href="/wiki/Class_A-Advanced" class="mw-redirect" title="Class A-Advanced">Class A-Advanced</a> in the minor leagues. Three others, Rene Leveret, Marc Ramirez, Denzel Richardson, and Rafael Skeete, were signed as <a href="/wiki/Free_agents" class="mw-redirect" title="Free agents">free agents</a> by <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">major league</a> teams during their careers, but played only in the minor leagues.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sint Maarten Volleyball Association is part of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Eastern_Caribbean_Volleyball_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eastern Caribbean Volleyball Association (page does not exist)">Eastern Caribbean Volleyball Association</a>, which hosts championship qualifiers with countries within its zone. Countries that are part of the ECVA are: Anguilla, Antigua, Bermuda, Virgin Islands, Dominica, Dutch Sint.Maarten, French St. Martin, Grenada, Montserrat, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over the past 8 years, volleyball in St.Maarten on a National level has been developing and showing results. In 2016, the Sint Maarten Men's National Team went on to win the championship in their pool for the round 1 World Championship Qualifiers winning the gold along with many individual awards. The local awardees were; Nicholas Henrietta (Best Setter); Leonardo J Jeffers (Best Outside Hitter); Stephan Ellis (Best Middle); Allinton Augustine (Best Defence); Riegmar Valies Courtar (Best Opposite), and Riegmar Valies Courtar (Best Scorer) and <a href="/wiki/Most_valuable_player" title="Most valuable player">MVP</a> Most Valuable Player.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Popular_culture">Popular culture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Air_Caraibes_Airbus_A330-323X_Breidenstein-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Air_Caraibes_Airbus_A330-323X_Breidenstein-2.jpg/250px-Air_Caraibes_Airbus_A330-323X_Breidenstein-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Air_Caraibes_Airbus_A330-323X_Breidenstein-2.jpg/330px-Air_Caraibes_Airbus_A330-323X_Breidenstein-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Air_Caraibes_Airbus_A330-323X_Breidenstein-2.jpg/500px-Air_Caraibes_Airbus_A330-323X_Breidenstein-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="811" /></a><figcaption>Tourists watch a low flying plane over the beach</figcaption></figure> <p>The island is famous for its <a href="/wiki/Runway" title="Runway">runway</a> at <a href="/wiki/Princess_Juliana_International_Airport" title="Princess Juliana International Airport">Princess Juliana International Airport</a>, in which <a href="/wiki/Landing" title="Landing">landing</a> aircraft pass within 35 metres (38 yd) of <a href="/wiki/Maho_Beach" title="Maho Beach">Maho Beach</a> below, due to the close proximity of the runway to the ocean. The planes appear to land dangerously close to beach goers so the beach and airport have become a popular place for people to view aeroplane landings. In July 2017, a New Zealander died from head injuries after being propelled backwards from a jet engine blast.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sint Maarten is also known for its festive nightlife, expansive beaches, precious jewelry, traditional cuisines, and plentiful casinos.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media_and_telecommunications">Media and telecommunications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Media and telecommunications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444" /><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Sint Maarten's first radio station, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Voice_of_St._Maarten&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Voice of St. Maarten (page does not exist)">Voice of St. Maarten</a> (PJD-2), was founded on 23 December 1959 and was also heard in neighbouring islands. During its first several years, it employed two announcers and broadcast leased religious programming for most of its daily schedule. Television services were introduced to the territory in May 1963, starting in the Phillipsburg area and served by a relay station in the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Willem&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fort Willem (page does not exist)">Fort Willem</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Willem_I_(Sint_Maarten)" class="extiw" title="nl:Fort Willem I (Sint Maarten)">nl</a>]</span> area which received programs from Puerto Rico; the Fort Willem site was chosen over the originally proposed one in <a href="/wiki/Quartier-d%27Orl%C3%A9ans" class="mw-redirect" title="Quartier-d'Orléans">French Quarter</a> thanks to the latter's reception issues. Starting on 21 March of that year, groundwork was laid for an automatic telephone system.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Previously<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (March 2024)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> residents had to complete secondary studies in <a href="/wiki/Aruba" title="Aruba">Aruba</a> or <a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Curaçao">Curaçao</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sociolinguisticsp2108_77-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sociolinguisticsp2108-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prior to 1976, Sint Maarten had two secondary schools: the government secondary school John Phillips School and the Catholic secondary school Pastoor Nieuwen Huis School. Philips was both a MAVO/ETAO school while Huis was a MAVO school. The foundation <a href="/wiki/Stichting_Voortgezet_Onderwijs_van_de_Bovenwindse_Eilanden" title="Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs van de Bovenwindse Eilanden">Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs van de Bovenwindse Eilanden</a>, established on 20 February 1974,<sup id="cite_ref-Mainhist_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mainhist-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was created as the neutral governing body for a new school created by the merger of Phillips and Huis schools.<sup id="cite_ref-Sundialhist_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sundialhist-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> MPC, the merged school, opened on 17 August 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-Mainhist_100-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mainhist-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Caribbean_International_Academy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Caribbean International Academy (page does not exist)">Caribbean International Academy</a> (CIA), founded in 2003 is a preparatory private boarding and day school on the island of St. Maarten. Catering to children from Kindergarten to Grade 12, CIA is also the only school offering Canadian/Ontario High School Diploma (OSSD) and 90% of their graduates go on to attend universities in Europe, Canada and the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Learning Unlimited Preparatory School (LUPS) is an American accredited institution, that established a Caribbean location in St.Maarten in 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The school is accredited by the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Association_of_Independent_Schools" title="Southern Association of Independent Schools">Southern Association of Independent Schools</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Association_of_Colleges_and_Schools" title="Southern Association of Colleges and Schools">Southern Association of Colleges and Schools</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most residents who attend tertiary institutions do so in Curaçao or the European Netherlands.<sup id="cite_ref-Klompp80_76-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Klompp80-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/American_University_of_the_Caribbean" title="American University of the Caribbean">American University of the Caribbean</a> School of Medicine (AUC), founded in 1978, was previously located on <a href="/wiki/Montserrat" title="Montserrat">Montserrat</a>. Because of the eruption of the <a href="/wiki/Soufri%C3%A8re_Hills_volcano" class="mw-redirect" title="Soufrière Hills volcano">Soufrière Hills volcano</a> in 1995, AUC moved its campus to St. Maarten later that year. A permanent campus was completed in 1998 in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cupecoy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cupecoy (page does not exist)">Cupecoy</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/University_of_St._Martin" title="University of St. Martin">University of St. Martin</a> is located in Philipsburg. The <a href="/wiki/University_of_Sint_Eustatius_School_of_Medicine" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Sint Eustatius School of Medicine">University of Sint Eustatius School of Medicine</a>, founded in 1999, was previously located on <a href="/wiki/Sint_Eustatius" title="Sint Eustatius">Sint Eustatius</a>. In September 2013, the University of Sint Eustatius moved its campus to Cole Bay, St. Maarten.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Philipsburg Jubilee Library in Philipsburg was the most prominent library in Sint Maarten.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, after Hurricane Irma hit the island in 2017, the library was forced to shut down. As of February 2019<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, Philipsburg Jubilee Library still lacks the funding necessary for it to be rebuilt,<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but has recently reopened in a temporary location until further notice.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transportation">Transportation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sint_Maarten&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Philipsburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Port of Philipsburg">Port of Philipsburg</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Air_France_Airbus_A340-200_(F-GLZJ)_on_short_finals_at_Princess_Juliana_Airport.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Air_France_Airbus_A340-200_%28F-GLZJ%29_on_short_finals_at_Princess_Juliana_Airport.jpg/250px-Air_France_Airbus_A340-200_%28F-GLZJ%29_on_short_finals_at_Princess_Juliana_Airport.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Air_France_Airbus_A340-200_%28F-GLZJ%29_on_short_finals_at_Princess_Juliana_Airport.jpg/330px-Air_France_Airbus_A340-200_%28F-GLZJ%29_on_short_finals_at_Princess_Juliana_Airport.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Air_France_Airbus_A340-200_%28F-GLZJ%29_on_short_finals_at_Princess_Juliana_Airport.jpg/500px-Air_France_Airbus_A340-200_%28F-GLZJ%29_on_short_finals_at_Princess_Juliana_Airport.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Landing at the airport</figcaption></figure><p> Sint Maarten is served by <a href="/wiki/Princess_Juliana_International_Airport" title="Princess Juliana International Airport">Princess Juliana International Airport</a>, serving destinations across the Caribbean, North America and France and the Netherlands. It is well known for its very low <a href="/wiki/Final_approach_(aeronautics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Final approach (aeronautics)">final approach</a> landings close to the popular <a href="/wiki/Maho_Beach" title="Maho Beach">Maho Beach</a> at the end of the runway.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Winair" title="Winair">Winair</a> has its headquarters on the grounds of the airport.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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title="CARICOM Single Market and Economy">Single Market and Economy (CSME)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/CARIFORUM" title="CARIFORUM">CARIFORUM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Organisation_of_Eastern_Caribbean_States" title="Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States">Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><span style="font-size: 85%;"><sup>1</sup> Member of the Community but not of the <a href="/wiki/CARICOM_Single_Market_and_Economy" title="CARICOM Single Market and Economy">CARICOM Single Market and Economy</a> (CSME)</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 85%;"><sup>2</sup> <a href="/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories" title="British Overseas Territories">British overseas territory</a> awaiting entrustment to join the CSME</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Outlying_territories_of_European_countries315" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Outlying_territories_of_European_countries" title="Template:Outlying territories of European 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Islands">Glorioso Islands</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Banc_du_Geyser" title="Banc du Geyser"> Geyser Shoal</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_de_Nova_Island" title="Juan de Nova Island">Juan de Nova Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tromelin_Island" title="Tromelin Island">Tromelin Island</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guadeloupe" title="Guadeloupe">Guadeloupe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martinique" title="Martinique">Martinique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayotte" title="Mayotte">Mayotte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Caledonia" title="New Caledonia">New Caledonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C3%A9union" title="Réunion">Réunion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Barth%C3%A9lemy" title="Saint Barthélemy">Saint Barthélemy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collectivity_of_Saint_Martin" title="Collectivity of Saint Martin">Saint Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon" title="Saint Pierre and Miquelon">Saint Pierre and Miquelon</a></li> <li><a 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bouvet_Island" title="Bouvet Island">Bouvet Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_I_Island" title="Peter I Island">Peter I Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Maud_Land" title="Queen Maud Land">Queen Maud Land</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Portugal</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Azores" title="Azores">Azores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madeira" title="Madeira">Madeira</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Spain</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canary_Islands" title="Canary Islands">Canary Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceuta" title="Ceuta">Ceuta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melilla" title="Melilla">Melilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plazas_de_Soberan%C3%ADa" class="mw-redirect" title="Plazas de Soberanía">Plazas de Soberanía</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alboran_Island" title="Alboran Island">Alboran Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alhucemas_Islands" title="Alhucemas Islands">Alhucemas Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chafarinas_Islands" title="Chafarinas Islands">Chafarinas Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Velez_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Velez Islands">Velez Islands</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">United Kingdom</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anguilla" title="Anguilla">Anguilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Antarctic_Territory" title="British Antarctic Territory">British Antarctic Territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory" title="British Indian Ocean Territory">British Indian Ocean Territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Virgin_Islands" title="British Virgin Islands">British Virgin Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cayman_Islands" title="Cayman Islands">Cayman Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falkland_Islands" title="Falkland Islands">Falkland Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montserrat" title="Montserrat">Montserrat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands" title="Pitcairn Islands">Pitcairn Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Helena,_Ascension_and_Tristan_da_Cunha" title="Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha">Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ascension_Island" title="Ascension Island">Ascension Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Helena" title="Saint Helena">Saint Helena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha" title="Tristan da Cunha">Tristan da Cunha</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands" title="South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands">South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands" title="Turks and Caicos Islands">Turks and Caicos Islands</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Countries_and_dependencies_of_North_America175" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jan_Mayen" title="Jan Mayen">Jan Mayen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smeerenburg" title="Smeerenburg">Smeerenburg</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Colonies_of_the_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands_(1815–1975)25" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Colonies of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="Kingdom of the Netherlands">Kingdom of the Netherlands</a> (1815–1975)</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" 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href="/wiki/Dutch_Gold_Coast" title="Dutch Gold Coast">Gold Coast</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Until 1949</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies" title="Dutch East Indies">Dutch East Indies</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Until 1954</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao_and_Dependencies" class="mw-redirect" title="Curaçao and Dependencies">Curaçao and Dependencies</a> <sup><small>3</small></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surinam_(Dutch_colony)" title="Surinam (Dutch colony)">Surinam</a> <sup><small>3</small></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Until 1962</th><td 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0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div id="*_Countries_and_territories_where_English_is_the_national_language_or_the_native_language_of_the_majority236"> <ul><li><b>Countries and territories where English is the national language or the native language of the majority</b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Africa" title="Languages of Africa">Africa</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Saint_Helena,_Ascension_and_Tristan_da_Cunha" title="Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha">Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Anglo-America" title="Anglo-America">Americas</a></th><td 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title="Grenada">Grenada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guyana" title="Guyana">Guyana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Montserrat" title="Montserrat">Montserrat</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Saba_(island)" title="Saba (island)">Saba</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis" title="Saint Kitts and Nevis">Saint Kitts and Nevis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Lucia" title="Saint Lucia">Saint Lucia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines" title="Saint Vincent and the Grenadines">Saint Vincent and the Grenadines</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sint_Eustatius" title="Sint Eustatius">Sint Eustatius</a></i></li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Sint Maarten</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands" title="South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands">South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands" title="Turks and Caicos Islands">Turks and Caicos Islands</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="United States Virgin Islands">United States Virgin Islands</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/English_language_in_Europe" title="English language in Europe">Europe</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Guernsey" title="Guernsey">Guernsey</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Ireland</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Man" title="Isle of Man">Isle of Man</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jersey" title="Jersey">Jersey</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Oceania" title="Languages of Oceania">Oceania</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Norfolk_Island" title="Norfolk Island">Norfolk Island</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands" title="Pitcairn Islands">Pitcairn Islands</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:lightblue;"><span style="padding-left:1.0em;"> </span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div id="*_Countries_and_territories_where_English_is_an_official_language,_but_not_the_majority_first_language161"> <ul><li><b>Countries and territories where English is an official language, but not the majority first language</b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Africa</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Botswana" title="Botswana">Botswana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cameroon" title="Cameroon">Cameroon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eswatini" title="Eswatini">Eswatini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Gambia" title="The Gambia">The Gambia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghana" title="Ghana">Ghana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lesotho" title="Lesotho">Lesotho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberia" title="Liberia">Liberia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malawi" title="Malawi">Malawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mauritius" title="Mauritius">Mauritius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Namibia" title="Namibia">Namibia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rwanda" title="Rwanda">Rwanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sierra_Leone" title="Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somaliland" title="Somaliland">Somaliland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Sudan" title="South Sudan">South Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uganda" title="Uganda">Uganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zambia" title="Zambia">Zambia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zimbabwe" title="Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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title="Philippines">Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Europe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Gibraltar" title="Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Akrotiri_and_Dhekelia" title="Akrotiri and Dhekelia">Akrotiri and Dhekelia</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malta" title="Malta">Malta</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Oceania</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cook_Islands" title="Cook Islands">Cook Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fiji" title="Fiji">Fiji</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiribati" title="Kiribati">Kiribati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshall_Islands" title="Marshall Islands">Marshall Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia" title="Federated States of Micronesia">Micronesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nauru" title="Nauru">Nauru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niue" title="Niue">Niue</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palau" title="Palau">Palau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samoa" title="Samoa">Samoa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands" title="Solomon Islands">Solomon Islands</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tokelau" title="Tokelau">Tokelau</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuvalu" title="Tuvalu">Tuvalu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vanuatu" 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href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_British_West_Indies&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the British West Indies (page does not exist)">British West Indies</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Danish_West_Indies&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Danish West Indies (page does not exist)">Danish West Indies</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Dutch_Caribbean&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Dutch Caribbean (page does not exist)">Dutch Caribbean</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Caribbean_Netherlands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Caribbean Netherlands (page does not exist)">Caribbean Netherlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of the Netherlands Antilles">Netherlands Antilles</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_French_West_Indies&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the French West Indies (page does not exist)">French West Indies</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_West_Indies_Federation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the West Indies Federation (page does not exist)">West Indies Federation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_West_Indies" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of the West Indies">West<br />Indies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Jamaica" title="List of islands of Jamaica">Jamaica</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Navassa_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Navassa Island">Navassa Island</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Puerto_Rico" title="List of islands of Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a></i></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Hispaniola44" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Hispaniola&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Hispaniola (page does not exist)">Hispaniola</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_Dominican_Republic" title="List of islands of the Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Haiti" title="List of islands of Haiti">Haiti</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Lesser_Antilles&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Lesser Antilles (page does not exist)">Lesser<br />Antilles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Leeward_Islands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Leeward Islands (page does not exist)">Leeward<br />Islands</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Anguilla" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Anguilla">Anguilla</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Antigua_and_Barbuda" title="List of islands of Antigua and Barbuda">Antigua and Barbuda</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Guadeloupe" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Guadeloupe">Guadeloupe</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_La_D%C3%A9sirade" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of La Désirade">La Désirade</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_%C3%8Eles_des_Saintes" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Îles des Saintes">Les Saintes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Marie-Galante" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Marie-Galante">Marie-Galante</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Montserrat" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Montserrat">Montserrat</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Saba_(island)" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Saba (island)">Saba</a><sup>^*</sup></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Saint_Barth%C3%A9lemy" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Saint Barthélemy">Saint Barthélemy</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis">Saint Kitts and Nevis</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Sint_Eustatius" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Sint Eustatius">Sint Eustatius</a><sup>^*</sup></i></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Saint_Martin_(island)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Saint Martin (island) (page does not exist)">Saint Martin</a><sup>^</sup></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_Collectivity_of_Saint_Martin" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of the Collectivity of Saint Martin">Collectivity of Saint Martin</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Sint_Maarten" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Sint Maarten">Sint Maarten</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Virgin_Islands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Virgin Islands (page does not exist)">Virgin Islands</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_British_Virgin_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of the British Virgin Islands">British Virgin Islands</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_United_States_Virgin_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of the United States Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Southern_Caribbean&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Southern Caribbean (page does not exist)">Southern<br />Caribbean</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Leeward_Antilles&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Leeward Antilles (page does not exist)">Leeward<br />Antilles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Insular_Region,_Venezuela&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Insular Region, Venezuela (page does not exist)">Insular Venezuela</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Federal_Dependencies_of_Venezuela&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela (page does not exist)">Federal Dependencies</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Nueva_Esparta&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Nueva Esparta (page does not exist)">Nueva Esparta</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="ABC_islands69" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_ABC_islands_(Leeward_Antilles)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the ABC islands (Leeward Antilles) (page does not exist)">ABC islands</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Aruba" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Aruba">Aruba</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Bonaire" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Bonaire">Bonaire</a><sup>*</sup></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Cura%C3%A7ao" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Curaçao">Curaçao</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Windward_Islands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Windward Islands (page does not exist)">Windward<br />Islands</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Dominica" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Dominica">Dominica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Grenada" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Grenada">Grenada</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Carriacou_and_Petite_Martinique&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Carriacou and Petite Martinique (page does not exist)">Carriacou and Petite Martinique</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Martinique" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Martinique">Martinique</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Saint_Lucia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Saint Lucia">Saint Lucia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines">Saint Vincent and the Grenadines</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> <ul><li> <a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Barbados" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Barbados">Barbados</a><sup>†</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</a><sup>†</sup></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_Lucayan_Archipelago" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of the Lucayan Archipelago">Lucayan<br />Archipelago</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_Bahamas" title="List of islands of the Bahamas">Bahamas</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_Turks_and_Caicos_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of the Turks and Caicos Islands">Turks and Caicos Islands</a></i></li> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_Caribbean_Sea" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of the Caribbean Sea">Caribbean<br />Sea</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Isla_de_Aves&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Isla de Aves (page does not exist)">Aves Island</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Archipelago_of_San_Andr%C3%A9s,_Providencia_and_Santa_Catalina" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina">San Andrés and Providencia</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Bajo_Nuevo_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Bajo Nuevo Bank (page does not exist)">Bajo Nuevo Bank</a><sup>~</sup></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Serranilla_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Serranilla Bank (page does not exist)">Serranilla Bank</a><sup>~</sup></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Western_Caribbean_zone&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Western Caribbean zone (page does not exist)">Caribbean<br />continental<br />zone</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Quintana_Roo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Quintana Roo (page does not exist)">Quintana Roo</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Cozumel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Cozumel (page does not exist)">Cozumel</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Central_America" title="List of islands of Central America">Central America</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Belize" title="List of islands of Belize">Belize</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Honduras" title="List of islands of Honduras">Honduras</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Bay_Islands_Department&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Bay Islands Department (page does not exist)">Bay Islands</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Izabal_Department&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Izabal Department (page does not exist)">Izabal</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Lim%C3%B3n_Province&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Limón Province (page does not exist)">Limón</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Corn_Islands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Corn Islands (page does not exist)">Corn Islands</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_North_Caribbean_Coast_Autonomous_Region&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (page does not exist)">North Caribbean Coast</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_South_Caribbean_Coast_Autonomous_Region&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (page does not exist)">South Caribbean Coast</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Panama" title="List of islands of Panama">Panama</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Caribbean_South_America&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Caribbean South America (page does not exist)">South America</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Caribbean_region_of_Colombia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Caribbean region of Colombia (page does not exist)">Colombian Caribbean</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Venezuelan_Caribbean&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Venezuelan Caribbean (page does not exist)">Venezuelan Caribbean</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Greater_Caribbean&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Greater Caribbean (page does not exist)">Wider<br />groupings<br />may include:</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Bermuda" title="List of islands of Bermuda">Bermuda</a><sup>#</sup></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Costa_Rica" title="List of islands of Costa Rica">Costa Rica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_El_Salvador" title="List of islands of El Salvador">El Salvador</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Guatemala" title="List of islands of Guatemala">Guatemala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Nicaragua" title="List of islands of Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Yucat%C3%A1n_Peninsula&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Yucatán Peninsula (page does not exist)">Yucatán Peninsula</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Campeche&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Campeche (page does not exist)">Campeche</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Pet%C3%A9n_Department&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Petén Department (page does not exist)">Petén</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Yucat%C3%A1n&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Yucatán (page does not exist)">Yucatán</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Guianas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Guianas (page does not exist)">The Guianas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Amap%C3%A1&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Amapá (page does not exist)">Amapá</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_French_Guiana" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of French Guiana">French Guiana</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_the_Guayana_Region,_Venezuela&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of the Guayana Region, Venezuela (page does not exist)">Venezuelan Guayana</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Guyana" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Guyana">Guyana</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Guyana%E2%80%93Venezuela_territorial_dispute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute (page does not exist)">Guayana Esequiba</a><sup>ǂ</sup></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_islands_of_Tigri_Area&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of islands of Tigri Area (page does not exist)">Tigri Area</a><sup>ǂ</sup></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Suriname" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Suriname">Suriname</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><b>N.B.:</b> Territories in <i>italics</i> are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies. <p><sup>^</sup>These three form the <a href="/wiki/SSS_islands" title="SSS islands">SSS islands</a> that with the ABC islands comprise the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Caribbean" title="Dutch Caribbean">Dutch Caribbean</a>, of which <sup>*</sup>the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Netherlands" title="Caribbean Netherlands">BES islands</a> are not direct <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="Kingdom of the Netherlands">Kingdom</a> constituents but subsumed with the country of the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>. </p><p><sup>†</sup><a href="/wiki/Physical_geography" title="Physical geography">Physiographically</a>, these <a href="/wiki/Island#Continental_islands" title="Island">continental islands</a> are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically. </p><p><sup>ǂ</sup><a href="/wiki/Territorial_dispute" title="Territorial dispute">Disputed territories</a> administered by <a href="/wiki/Guyana" title="Guyana">Guyana</a>. <sup>~</sup><a href="/wiki/Territorial_dispute" title="Territorial dispute">Disputed territories</a> administered by <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a>. </p> <sup>#</sup><a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a> is an isolated <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">North Atlantic</a> <a href="/wiki/Island#Oceanic_islands" title="Island">oceanic island</a>, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. 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