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Saint-Martin

overseas collectivity, France
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Saint-Martin, overseas collectivity of France on the island of Saint Martin, in the Lesser Antilles, eastern Caribbean Sea. The collectivity of Saint-Martin occupies the northern two-thirds of the island; the southern third, named Sint Maarten, formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, is an autonomous country within the Dutch kingdom. Until February 2007 Saint-Martin was a commune and, together with Saint-Barthélemy, an arrondissement of the French overseas département of Guadeloupe. Marigot is the capital. Vegetation on Saint-Martin consists primarily of dry forest with groves of latania (a kind of fan palm) and cactus. There is an airport at Grand Case, near ...(100 of 395 words)

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