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Oct 10, 2017 · The capital city of Sint Maarten is Philipsburg. It is also the country’s major town. It stretches as a narrow band of land between the Great Salt Pond and the Great Bay. The city is inhabited by 1,327 people, as of 2011. The town experiences a tropical savanna climate and is susceptible to hurricanes from September to November.
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Sint Maarten (Dutch pronunciation: [sɪntˈmaːrtə(n)] ⓘ) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. With a population of 41,486 as of January 2019 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 overseas collectivity of Saint Martin.
Philipsburg ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfilɪbzˌbʏr (ə)x]) is the main town and capital of Sint Maarten, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The town is on a narrow stretch of land between Great Bay and the Great Salt Pond. It functions as the commercial center of Saint Martin island, whereof Sint Maarten encompasses the ...
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Apr 17, 2024 · The short answer is anytime. Located in the Lesser Antilles among the northernmost Leeward Islands, Sint Maarten enjoys a tropical climate with average temperatures ranging from 74℉ (23 ℃) to 90℉ (32℃). With roughly 8 to 10 hours of sun a day, summoning your inner beach bum will be easy work whenever you go.
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The capital of Sint Maarten is Philipsburg, which is also the main settlement. The Arawak and Carib inhabited the island before its sighting by Christopher Columbus on November 11, 1493, the feast day of St. Martin of Tours. It was claimed by several European powers—notably the Dutch and the French, who partitioned the island in 1648.
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Saint Martin (French: Saint-Martin; Dutch: Sint Maarten) is an island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately 300 km (190 mi) east of Puerto Rico.The 87-square-kilometre (34 sq mi) island is divided roughly 60:40 between the French Republic (53 km 2 or 20 sq mi) and the Kingdom of the Netherlands (34 km 2 or 13 sq mi), but the Dutch part is more populated than the French part.
It became a part of the Dutch West Indies in 1828, and it was one of the original territories of the Netherlands Antilles federation that was established in 1954 and dissolved in 2010. Sint Maarten is now an autonomous state within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The capital is Philipsburg.
