Where is St. Maarten?

apx 300 miles southeast of Puerto Rico.It is an island that has been fought over by the Dutch & French for hundreds of years. It is now split in half. The Dutch side is St Maarten,and the Frecnh is St Martin. Both sides reflect their individual cultures.It has some great beaches,both traditional & nude. The sand is the same.

Saint Martin is a tropical island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately 150 miles east of Puerto Rico. The 88 km虏 (38 square-mile) island is divided roughly in half between France and the Netherlands; it is the smallest inhabited land mass in the world that is divided between two nations (with the possible exception of a small island in Boundary Lake, between the U.S. and Canada). The southern Dutch half is called Sint Maarten and is part of the Netherlands Antilles; the northern French half is called Saint-Martin and is part of the French overseas r茅gion and d茅partement of Guadeloupe. Collectively, the two territories are known as, "St.-Martin/St. Maarten", "St. Martins", or simply, "SXM" (SXM is the IATA identifier for Princess Juliana International Airport, the island's main airport). Remarkably, neither of the two halves of Saint Martin warrants a separate FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code; they are presumably coded as GP (Guadeloupe) and NT (Netherlands Antilles).

The main towns are Marigot (French side) and Philipsburg (Dutch side).