Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Marigot
- Region
- Americas, Caribbean
- Population
- 24,941 (2025)
- Area
- 53 km²
- Currency
- euro (EUR)
- Languages
- French
- Calling code
- +590
- Internet domain
- .fr, .gp
- ISO codes
- MF, MAF, 663
- Time zone
- UTC-4:00
- United Nations
- Not a member
- Postal code pattern
- ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Saint Martin covers about 53 square kilometres. By area it ranks 236th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Bermuda and a little larger than Bouvet Island. It shares a land border with 1 neighbour: Sint Maarten. Its centre lies at about 18° north, 64° west, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 24,941 people live in Saint Martin (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 223rd most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 471 people to each square kilometre. About 100 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 80 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: French. A person from Saint Martin is called Saint Martin Islander.
Money and economy
The currency is the euro (code EUR, symbol €). It is also the main currency of Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland and 28 more. The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 649 million (2021), which is about US$ 21,668 for each person (2021).
Time
Saint Martin uses one time zone, UTC-4:00 (America/Marigot). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Marigot | 5,700 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Caribbean
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.