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Sint Maarten: map and facts

Sint Maarten is in the Caribbean. It has 43,923 people (2025). It covers 34 km². That is about 1,292 people per km².

Sint Maarten and the land around it. The circle marks its capital, Philipsburg. Boundaries follow India’s official position.

Facts

Population: 43,923 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 34 km² (2024, World Bank). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 24 km².
Capital: Philipsburg
Forest: 8.8% of the land (2024, World Bank)

Land

Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): towns and cities 46.4%, grassland 17.9%, water 14.3%, evergreen broadleaf forest 7.1%, savanna 7.1%, farmland 3.6%.

Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): hills 100%.

Forests covered 8.8% of its land in 2024, the same as in 2015 (World Bank).

Neighbours

Sint Maarten shares land borders with Saint Martin on this map.

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Sources

India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.

Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.

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