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Saint Martin (French: Saint-Martin; Dutch: Sint Maarten) is an island in Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles in the northeastern Caribbean, approximately 300 km (190 mi) east of Puerto Rico. The 87 km 2 (34 sq mi) island is divided roughly 60:40 between the French Republic (53 km 2 or 20 sq mi) [ 1 ] and the Kingdom of the Netherlands (34 km ...
Sint Maarten (Dutch pronunciation: [sɪntˈmaːrtə(n)] ⓘ) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean region of North America. [8] With a population of 58,477 [9] [2] as of June 2023 on an area of 34 km 2 (13 sq mi), it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin, while the northern 56% of the island constitutes the French ...
Saint Martin (island), an island in the northeast Caribbean, divided between France and the Netherlands Collectivity of Saint Martin, French portion of the island; Sint Maarten, Dutch portion of the island; St. Martin's Island, a small island in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh; Saint Martin of the Tigers, ghost town in southern Angola
The border starts in the west at Cupecoy Bay and then proceeds eastward, cutting across Rue de Terre-Basses/Rhine Road. It then runs through the Simpson Bay Lagoon between the island of Little Key (Dutch) and Grand Islet (French). Back on land it crosses Rue de Hollande/Union Road and then turns north-eastwards, running across Sint Peter Hill ...
Saint Kitts – Divided between Great Britain and the French Empire in 1628. "The island fell to the French in April 1666, but by the Treaty of Utrecht, April 11, 1713, it was yielded entirely to the British crown." [94] Then it became part of the British Empire for about 250 years, and finally part of the independent country of Saint Kitts and ...
Flevopolder, the world's largest artificial island; IJsseloog; Marken; Pampus; Vuurtoreneiland; Wieringen, Schokland and Urk are former islands, now part of a polder; De Kreupel, an artificial island, constructed to be a bird refuge; The Marker Wadden archipelago, a collection of artificial islands in the Markermeer
This is a list of airports in the former Netherlands Antilles upon its dissolution in 2010, sorted by location.. The Netherlands Antilles were part of the Lesser Antilles and consisted of two groups of islands in the Caribbean Sea: Bonaire and Curaçao (off the Venezuelan coast), and Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten (located southeast of the Virgin Islands).
France–Netherlands relations are the interstate and bilateral relations between France and the Netherlands.The two countries notably share a border division in the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, to which the northern part of the island is a French overseas collectivity known as the Collectivity of Saint Martin, while the southern part of the island is a Dutch constituent country known as ...