|Short name||Sint Maarten|
Sint Maarten was part of the Netherlands Antilles, a colony of the Netherlands, until 2010-10-10. On that date it became an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Discovered by Columbus on 1493-11-11, feast day of Saint Martin de Tours
Sint Maarten has no known administrative divisions.
ISO 3166-2 provides two codes for Sint Maarten. Considered as a separate country, its code is
Considered as part of the Netherlands, its code is
The country consists of the southern part of an island called Sint Maarten by the Dutch and Saint Martin by the French.
The UN LOCODE page for Sint Maarten lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.
2010-10-10: Sint Maarten was split from the former Netherlands Antilles. In its previous status, its HASC
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