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An unofficial flag is used by the local government, which depicts the island's coat of arms on a white field. [2] Another unofficial flag that was used depicted a modern logotype, containing the name "Saint-Martin", with "Caraïbe Française" and "French Caribbean" written in small text below.
The island of Saint Martin was first spotted by Christopher Columbus on 11 November 1493 during his second voyage to the West Indies, and was named after Martin of Tours, whose feast day coincided with the sighting. [1] [2] Sovereignty over the island changed hands between the Spanish, Dutch, and French over the next century.
Flags of Overseas France Territory Co-Official flag Government flag [d] Local flag [e] Traditional flag [f] French Guiana: French Polynesia [1] Guadeloupe: Martinique: Mayotte: New Caledonia: Réunion: Saint Barthélemy: Saint Martin: Saint Pierre and Miquelon: French Southern and Antarctic Lands: Wallis and Futuna
Various logos and emblems have been used to represent the Collectivity of Saint Martin.The most recent coat of arms used by the collectivity were adopted in 2010.. These arms depict various symbols of Saint Martin like the pelican, flamboyant and coralita flowers, the Border Obelisk [], 'slavery walls' (mur des esclaves, made of dry stone), salt, sea, sunrise, mountains, and seashells.
Before 2007, the French part of Saint Martin was a commune belonging to the French overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. Despite seceding from Guadeloupe in 2007 and gaining more autonomy as an overseas collectivity of France, Saint Martin has remained an outermost region of the European Union and is part of the eurozone.
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 ...
Martini (cocktail) flag. A prankster saw that the Dutch and French flag are rotated 90°, so they did the same with the Sint-Maarten flag, and turned it into a martini. This is a joke. Saint Martin uses the French flag as its official flag.
List of football clubs in Saint Martin; List of island countries; List of political parties in France; List of proposed state mergers; List of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Caribbean; Middle America (Americas) Miss France 2013; Miss France 2015; Miss France 2017; North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation ...