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Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a territory in North America. About 5 888 people live there, in an area of 242 square kilometres. Its capital city is Saint-Pierre.
Where is Saint Pierre and Miquelon?
Saint Pierre and Miquelon lies in North America, on the continent of Americas.
It sits in the northern half of the world, roughly 5 213 km from the equator.
Its coastline is about 120 km long.
It has no land neighbours — every border it has is with the sea.
How big is Saint Pierre and Miquelon?
Saint Pierre and Miquelon covers 242 square kilometres.
Luxembourg is about 11 times bigger.
If everybody spread out evenly, there would be about 24.3 people on every square kilometre.
That is emptier than the world average of roughly 60 people per square kilometre.
Who lives in Saint Pierre and Miquelon?
About 5 888 people live in Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
People here speak French.
They pay with the Euro (€).
On average, people born here can expect to live about 78 years.
The land of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Its coast runs for about 120 km. Walking it end to end, at twenty kilometres a day, would take roughly 6 days.
It lies between the tropics and the poles, which is the single biggest reason its weather is the way it is.
What makes Saint Pierre and Miquelon different?
Websites from here often end in .pm.
Saint Pierre and Miquelon and the rest of the world
Fewer than one person in every thousand on Earth lives in Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
It takes up less than a hundredth of one per cent of all the land in the world.
A country, or a territory?
Saint Pierre and Miquelon is not an independent country but a territory. It has its own name, its own borders and often its own laws, but another country speaks for it abroad — it holds no seat of its own at the United Nations, for instance.
That is more common than it sounds. There are dozens of such places around the world: some sit far from the country they belong to, some right beside it. A few govern themselves almost completely and hand over only defence and foreign policy; others are held more closely. How much a territory decides for itself is settled case by case, never by one rule.
On this site territories get a page of their own, because children look them up and because other pages link to them. They are left out of the record lists, though: those rank only members of the United Nations, so that a ranking never mixes countries with places belonging to somebody else.
How big is Saint Pierre and Miquelon compared with the United States?
- The United States is about 38 730 times as big as Saint Pierre and Miquelon: 9 372 610 km² against 242 km².
- The United Kingdom is about 1 004 times as big as Saint Pierre and Miquelon: 242 900 km² against 242 km².
Questions children ask
What is the capital of Saint Pierre and Miquelon?
The capital of Saint Pierre and Miquelon is Saint-Pierre. It is the city where the country's government works from.
How many people live in Saint Pierre and Miquelon?
About 5 888 people live in Saint Pierre and Miquelon. (Source: World Bank, 2018.)
How big is Saint Pierre and Miquelon?
Saint Pierre and Miquelon covers 242 square kilometres. Luxembourg is about 11 times bigger.
Which continent is Saint Pierre and Miquelon in?
Saint Pierre and Miquelon is in Americas, in the part called North America.
Where these numbers come from
Borders and outlines: Natural Earth. Names, capitals, areas, languages and currencies: ISO 3166 data (world-countries). Population: World Bank, 2018. Every derived figure on this page (ranks, density, distance from the equator) is calculated from those values.
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