Saint Pierre and Miquelon 🇵🇲

Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a territory in North America, and it is not a sovereign state in its own right. The short and official forms of the name are the same. Government sits in Saint-Pierre.

It is home to roughly 5,800 people, placing it 232nd of 250 by population — between Tuvalu above it and Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha below. Among the 7 entries in North America it ranks 5th by area and 6th by population.

The land area is 242 km², which ranks it 220th of the 250 countries and territories in this dataset — just behind Niue and just ahead of the Cook Islands. For scale, it is around a fifth smaller than the Maldives.

Saint Pierre and Miquelon does not hold a United Nations seat of its own. It is administered as a dependency or overseas territory rather than as a sovereign state, which is why it sits outside the 193 member states while still appearing among the 250 entries on this site.

Not holding a UN seat is not the same as having no self-government, and the administrative details make that clear. Saint Pierre and Miquelon has 5 of the five markers of separate administration tracked on this page — its own currency, its own dialling code, its own internet domain, its own iso codes and a designated capital. In day-to-day terms it is run substantially as its own jurisdiction.

• Its own currencyEUR
• Its own dialling code+508
• Its own internet domain.pm
• Its own ISO codespm / SPM
• A designated capitalSaint-Pierre

Plotted on a globe it falls at 46.8° north, 56.3° west, which puts it in the northern hemisphere, roughly 5,213 km from the equator, in what geographers would call temperate latitudes.

Follow that same latitude east or west and you reach Kazakhstan, Mongolia and France — places that share its distance from the equator but little else.

It shares no land border with anyone. That puts it among the 85 entries of 250 here with no land neighbours, a group made up mostly of islands and island groups.

Saint Pierre and Miquelon has no land border with any country, which changes what "nearby" means. Measured centre to centre in a straight line, the closest other entry on this site is Bermuda, roughly 1,760 km away. These are approximate distances between representative points, not the shortest crossing between two shorelines, so treat them as a sense of scale rather than a sailing chart.

Being surrounded by water rather than by neighbours pushes a country's relationships outward. Iceland sits in a different world region from Saint Pierre and Miquelon yet ranks among its closest geographic company — the kind of pairing that only shows up once you stop thinking in continents.

No land border also means no land crossing: everything and everyone arrives by sea or by air. That single fact drives a lot of what follows on this page, from how goods reach the shops to why Saint Pierre and Miquelon's dialling code and internet domain are worth knowing before you travel.

Population divided by land area gives roughly 24 people per square kilometre, which makes it less crowded than the typical entry on this list. Half the entries in this dataset fall below roughly 90 per square kilometre.

People from Saint Pierre and Miquelon are called Saint-Pierrais, Miquelonnais.

The one official language is French. Another 45 entries list French too — among them Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso and Burundi.

Against the Americas as a whole it is the 53rd most populous of 56 entries, and it accounts for under 1% of everyone living in North America.

Saint Pierre and Miquelon does not have the Euro to itself. It is one of 38 entries on this site that use the currency, whose code is EUR, and the others include listed below. A shared currency usually points at something real — a monetary union, a currency board, a former colonial administration, or a small economy pegging itself to a large neighbour's money — and it means a price quoted in EUR travels further than you might expect.

Language reaches wider still. French is listed for 46 entries here, Saint Pierre and Miquelon among them, so a visitor who speaks it can be understood across a large part of the map. Shared language tends to outlive the empires, trade routes and migrations that spread it, which is why the linguistic map and the political one rarely line up.

Zoom in from the world to North America and Saint Pierre and Miquelon sits 6th of 7 by population and 5th by area. Its immediate company in that ordering is Greenland just above and United States Minor Outlying Islands just below, which is a more honest comparison set than a global league table.

United States is the largest of the group by population, and every entry in North America has its own page here if you want to work through the whole neighbourhood rather than one country at a time.

• 🇬🇱 Greenland
• 🇺🇲 United States Minor Outlying Islands
• 🇺🇸 United States

Money there is the Euro (€, EUR). Another 37 entries use the same currency — Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria and Croatia among them — so exchange rates move for reasons that have nothing to do with Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

Websites there use the .pm domain. To phone it from abroad you dial +508. Its ISO codes are pm and SPM, which is what most databases and flag files use.

Saint-Pierre is the city to remember for this territory.

Saint Pierre and Miquelon is not a UN member state. The dataset does not record which state administers it, so this page does not guess. Of the 250 entries here, 57 are territories or observers rather than member states.