Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Philipsburg
- Region
- Americas, Caribbean
- Population
- 43,923 (2025)
- Area
- 34 km²
- Currency
- Caribbean guilder (XCG)
- Languages
- Dutch, English
- Calling code
- +599
- Internet domain
- .sx
- ISO codes
- SX, SXM, 534
- Time zone
- UTC-4:00
- United Nations
- Not a member
Land and position
Sint Maarten covers about 34 square kilometres. By area it ranks 241st among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than United States Minor Outlying Islands and a little larger than Macau. It shares a land border with 1 neighbour: Saint Martin. Its centre lies at about 18° north, 63° west, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 43,923 people live in Sint Maarten (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 214th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 1,292 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 77 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Dutch, English. A person from Sint Maarten is called St. Maartener.
Money and economy
The currency is the Caribbean guilder (code XCG, symbol Cg). It is also the main currency of Curaçao. The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 1.89 billion (2025), which is about US$ 42,978 for each person (2025).
Time
Sint Maarten uses one time zone, UTC-4:00 (America/Lower Princes). 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 |
|---|---|
| Philipsburg | 1,400 |
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.