Saint Martin 🇲🇫

Saint Martin sits in the Caribbean and is listed as a dependency rather than an independent state. Marigot is the capital.

By land area it covers 53 km², which ranks it 236th of the 250 countries and territories in this dataset — just behind Bermuda and just ahead of Bouvet Island. Put next to a territory most people can picture, it is around a fifth smaller than San Marino.

Around 26,129 people live there, placing it 224th of 250 by population — between the Caribbean Netherlands above it and Palau below. Among the 28 entries in the Caribbean it ranks 26th by area and 25th by population.

Saint Martin does not hold a United Nations seat of its own. It is administered as a dependency or overseas territory rather than as a sovereign state, which is why it sits outside the 193 member states while still appearing among the 250 entries on this site.

Not holding a UN seat is not the same as having no self-government, and the administrative details make that clear. Saint Martin has 5 of the five markers of separate administration tracked on this page — its own currency, its own dialling code, its own internet domain, its own iso codes and a designated capital. In day-to-day terms it is run substantially as its own jurisdiction.

• Its own currencyEUR
• Its own dialling code+590
• Its own internet domain.fr
• Its own ISO codesmf / MAF
• A designated capitalMarigot

Its reference point sits at 18.1° north and 64.0° west, which puts it in the northern hemisphere, roughly 2,013 km from the equator, in what geographers would call tropical latitudes.

Countries on the same parallel, far away in longitude, include India, Mali and Mauritania.

It borders 1 neighbour: Sint Maarten.

Unlike its landlocked neighbours it reaches the sea directly, while also sharing land frontiers.

Density comes out at around 493 people per square kilometre, which makes it densely populated. For comparison, the median entry on this list sits near 90 per square kilometre.

Officially it is monolingual: French. French is one of the widely shared official languages here, listed by 45 other entries including Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso and Burundi.

The demonym is Saint Martin Islander, so residents are Saint Martin Islanders.

Inside the Americas it places 50th of 56 by population, and it accounts for under 1% of everyone living in the Caribbean.

Saint Martin does not have the Euro to itself. It is one of 38 entries on this site that use the currency, whose code is EUR, and the others include listed below. A shared currency usually points at something real — a monetary union, a currency board, a former colonial administration, or a small economy pegging itself to a large neighbour's money — and it means a price quoted in EUR travels further than you might expect.

Language reaches wider still. French is listed for 46 entries here, Saint Martin among them, so a visitor who speaks it can be understood across a large part of the map. Shared language tends to outlive the empires, trade routes and migrations that spread it, which is why the linguistic map and the political one rarely line up.

Zoom in from the world to Caribbean and Saint Martin sits 25th of 28 by population and 26th by area. Its immediate company in that ordering is Caribbean Netherlands just above and Anguilla just below, which is a more honest comparison set than a global league table.

Haiti is the largest of the group by population, and every entry in Caribbean has its own page here if you want to work through the whole neighbourhood rather than one country at a time.

• Caribbean Netherlands
• 🇦🇮 Anguilla
• 🇭🇹 Haiti

The currency is the Euro (€, EUR). That is a shared currency: 37 other entries use it, including Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria and Croatia.

Marigot is the city to remember for this territory.

Its internet country code is .fr. To phone it from abroad you dial +590. In ISO terms it is mf in two letters and MAF in three.

Saint Martin is not a UN member state. The dataset does not record which state administers it, so this page does not guess. Of the 250 entries here, 57 are territories or observers rather than member states.