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List of cities of each of the islands in the former Netherlands Antilles. Aruba left the Netherlands Antilles in 1986. Curaçao and Sint Maarten left in 2010, and the remaining islands are now part of the Caribbean Netherlands. [1]
Modifications: converted world map to SVG image and merged the two vector images to show the location of the Dutch Caribbean islands in the Lesser Antilles. The original can be viewed here: BlankMap-World-noborders.png: . Modifications made by Thayts.
Andrew Doria receives a salute from the Dutch fort at Sint Eustatius, 16 November 1776. The islands of the Dutch Caribbean were, formerly, part of Curaçao and Dependencies (1815–1828), or Sint Eustatius and Dependencies (1815–1828), which were merged with the colony of Suriname (not actually considered part of the "Dutch Caribbean", although it is located on the Caribbean coast of ...
Saint Martin (French: Saint-Martin; Dutch: Sint Maarten) is an island in Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles in the northeastern Caribbean, approximately 300 km (190 mi) east of Puerto Rico. The 87 km 2 (34 sq mi) island is divided roughly 60:40 between the French Republic (53 km 2 or 20 sq mi) [ 1 ] and the Kingdom of the Netherlands (34 km ...
The Caribbean Netherlands, not to be confused with the comprehensive Dutch Caribbean, has a population of 30,397 as of 2024. [12] Their total area is 328 square kilometres (127 sq mi). In 2012, the islands of the Caribbean Netherlands voted for the first time, due to being special municipalities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the 2012 ...
The ABC islands is the physical group of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.These islands have a shared political history and a status of Dutch underlying ownership, since the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 ceded them back to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as Curaçao and Dependencies from 1815.
Netherlands Antilles – former autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire, in Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast; and Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten, in the Leeward Islands southeast of the Virgin Islands.
Map of the Caribbean Sea and its islands. Date: 9 April 2011: Source: Own work, ... Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean/Caribbean Netherlands work group; Wikipedia ...