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Saint Pierre and Miquelon , officially the Overseas Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (French: Collectivité d'outre-mer de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon [sɛ̃ pjɛʁ e miklɔ̃] ), is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, located near the Canadian province of. . Saint-Pierre is French for , the of fishermen. The present name of Miquelon was first noted in the form of Micquetô, Miqueton or Micquellon in the French Basque sailor 's. . Since March 2003, Saint Pierre and Miquelon has been an overseas collectivity with a special status. The archipelago has two : and . A third commune, , existed until 1945, when it was. . The economy of the islands, due to their location, has been dependent on fishing and servicing fishing fleets operating off the coast of . The economy has been declining, however, due to disputes with quotas and a decline in the. . • (1871–1943), a Rear Admiral of the and one-time military .• (1905–1979), politician and academic administrator. . Before 1900Archaeological evidence indicates that Indigenous peoples, such as the , visited St Pierre and Miquelon. However, it is not thought that they settled on the islands permanently. On 21 October 1520, the Portuguese explorer . Located off the western end of the Newfoundland's , the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon comprises eight islands, totalling 242 square kilometres (93 sq mi), of which only two are inhabited. The islands are bare and rocky, with steep. . The total population of the islands at the March 2016 census was 6,008, of which 5,412 lived in and 596 in . At the time of the 1999 census, 76% of the population was born on the archipelago, while 16.1% were born in metropolitan. . Saint-Pierre e Miquelon (in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon) è un arcipelago dell' settentrionale appartenente amministrativamente alla , della quale costituisce una . Si trova al largo della costa ed è costituito da 17 isole a sud di Burin, penisola della provincia di , le maggiori delle quali sono.