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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 ...
[1] [2] Sovereignty over the island changed hands between the Spanish, Dutch, and French over the next century. [2] [3] This continued until 1648, when the Dutch Republic and France signed the Treaty of Concordia to partition the island. [4] [5] Sint Maarten became part of the Dutch West Indies federation in 1828.
The "Unity Flag" of Saint Martin, used in both halves of the island Map of the island of Saint Martin. In orange is the Dutch part of the island (Sint Maarten) and in green is the French one (the Collectivity of Saint Martin). The unification of Saint Martin (Dutch: Eenwording van Sint Maarten; French: Unification de Saint-Martin) is the ...
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 French territory of St. Martin is part of the Diocese of Basse-Terre and Pointe-à-Pitre (in Latin, Dioecesis Imae Telluris and in French, Diocèse de Basse-Terre et Pointe-à-Pitre), attached to the organization of the Catholic Church in France. The diocese includes the territories of Guadeloupe, St. Barthélemy and St. Martin.
The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen, pronounced [ˈneːdərlɑntsə ʔɑnˈtɪlə(n)] ⓘ; Papiamento: Antia Hulandes), [2] also known as the Dutch Antilles, [3] was a constituent Caribbean country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands consisting of the islands of Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten in the Lesser Antilles, and Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire in the Leeward Antilles.
In 1994, France and the Netherlands signed the Franco-Dutch treaty on Saint Martin border controls, which improved the mutual border controls at their airports on the island. [11] Today there is a movement in both Sint Maarten and Saint Martin promoting the unification of the island, which would make the border between them disappear. [12]
English: Map in English of the Caribbean island of Saint-Martin / Sint Maarten, divided between French and Dutch halves. Note: the shaded relief is a raster image embedded in the SVG file. Français : Carte en anglais de l' île de Saint-Martin / Sint Maarten dans les Antilles , divisée en une partie française et une partie néerlandaise.