🇵🇲 Saint Pierre and Miquelon

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Geography & Borders

This country has no land borders.

Introduction & Background

Saint Pierre and Miquelon (/ˈmɪkəlɒn/),3 officially the Territorial Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (Template:Lang-fr Template:IPA-fr), is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean near the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.45 Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a remaining vestige of the once-vast territory of New France.4 Its residents are French citizens; the collectivity elects its own deputy to the National Assembly and participates in senatorial and presidential elections. It covers 242km2 (93mi2) of land and had a population of 6,008 as of the March 2016 censusupdate.note 11

The islands are in the Gulf of St. Lawrence near the entrance of Fortune Bay, which extends into the southwestern coast of Newfoundland, near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.6 St. Pierre is 19km (12mi) from Point May on the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland and 3,819km (2,373mi) from Brest, the nearest city in Metropolitan France.7 The tiny Canadian Green Island lies 10km (6mi) east of St. Pierre, roughly halfway to Point May.