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Saba (island)

"Saba Island" redirects here. For the island south of St. Thomas, see Saba Island (United States Virgin Islands).

Saba
Special municipality
Satellite image of Saba
Satellite image of Saba
Flag of Saba
Flag
Coat of arms of Saba
Coat of arms
Motto(s): 
"Remis Velisque" (Latin)
"With oars and sails" (English)
Anthem: "Saba you rise from the ocean"
Location of Saba (island) (circled in red) in the Caribbean
Location of Saba (island) (circled in red)

in the Caribbean

Map showing location of Saba relative to Sint Eustatius and Saint Martin.
Map showing location of Saba relative to Sint Eustatius and Saint Martin.
Coordinates: 17°37′57″N 63°14′15″W / 17.63250°N 63.23750°W / 17.63250; -63.23750
Country Netherlands
Overseas regionCaribbean Netherlands
Incorporated into the Netherlands10 October 2010 (dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles)
Capital
(and largest city)		The Bottom
Government
 (see Politics of the Netherlands)
 • Lt. GovernorJonathan Johnson
Area
[1]
 • Total13 km2 (5 sq mi)
Population
 (1 January 2022)[2]
 • Total1,911
 • Density148/km2 (380/sq mi)
DemonymSaban
Languages
 • OfficialEnglish[3] • Dutch
Ethnicity
 • Saban26.6 %
 • Sint Maarten15.7 %
 • American10.0 %
 • other47.7 %
Time zoneUTC−4 (AST)
Calling code+599-4
ISO 3166 codeBQ-SA, NL-BQ2
CurrencyUnited States dollar ($) (USD)
Internet TLD

Saba (/ˈseɪbə/ SAY-bə,[6] Dutch: [ˈsaːbaː] )[7] is a Caribbean island and the smallest special municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands.[8][9] It consists largely of the dormant volcano[10] Mount Scenery, which at 887 metres (2,910 ft) is the highest point of the entire Kingdom of the Netherlands. The island lies in the northern Leeward Islands portion of the West Indies, southeast of the Virgin Islands. Together with Bonaire and Sint Eustatius it forms the BES islands, also known as the Caribbean Netherlands.

Saba has a land area of 13 square kilometres (5.0 sq mi).[1] The population was 1,911 in January 2022,[11] with a population density of 147 inhabitants per square kilometre (380/sq mi). It is the smallest territory by permanent population in the Americas. Its towns and major settlements are The Bottom (the capital), Windwardside, Zion's Hill, and St. Johns.

  1. ^ a b Zaken, Ministerie van Algemene (May 19, 2015). "Waaruit bestaat het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden? – Rijksoverheid.nl". onderwerpen (in Dutch). Retrieved Oct 4, 2021.
  2. ^ "Caribisch Nederland; bevolking; geslacht, leeftijd, burgerlijke staat". CBS StatLine. 2022-04-28. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  3. ^ English can be used in relations with the government. "Invoeringswet openbare lichamen Bonaire, Sint Eustatius en Saba" (in Dutch). wetten.nl. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
  4. ^ "BQ – Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba". ISO. Archived from the original on 17 June 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  5. ^ "Delegation Record for .BQ". IANA. 20 December 2010. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
  6. ^ Wells, John C. (2008). "Saba island in the Caribbean". Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.). Longman. ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0. some reference books wrongly claim it is ˈsɑːb ə or ˈsæb ə
  7. ^ Mangold, Max (2015). "Duden – Das Aussprachewörterbuch". Der Duden in zwölf Bänden. Institut für Deutsche Sprache. p. 747.
  8. ^ "Wet openbare lichamen Bonaire, Sint Eustatius en Saba
    (Law on the public bodies of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba)"    . Dutch Government (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 October 2010.
  9. ^ "31.954, Wet openbare lichamen Bonaire, Sint Eustatius en Saba" (in Dutch). Eerste kamer der Staten-Generaal. Retrieved 15 October 2010. De openbare lichamen vallen rechtstreeks onder het Rijk omdat zij geen deel uitmaken van een provincie. (The public bodies (...), because they are not part of a Province)
  10. ^ Rahn, Jennifer L. (2017), Allen, Casey D. (ed.), "Saba and St. Eustatius (Statia)", Landscapes and Landforms of the Lesser Antilles, World Geomorphological Landscapes, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 61–84, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55787-8_6, ISBN 978-3-319-55785-4, retrieved 2022-07-11
  11. ^ "The Caribbean Netherlands in Numbers 2022: How has the population evolved over the past decade?". cbs.nl. Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. Archived from the original on 2023-02-06.


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