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It has both as exclaves: the France-Netherlands border in the group of islands at bottom left (nitpick: technically not a border with the Netherlands because St Maarten nowadays is an independent country in the kingdom of the Netherlands), just above Cuba, and the Belize exclave at the top of Brazil, bordering Surinam.


The Kingdom of the Netherlands is the parent nation state, despite St Maarten's designation as a "country". It's no more an independent state than Scotland (which is to say, not independent).

(also sorry to be pedantic)




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