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Willemstad (/ ˈ w ɪ l ə m s t ɑː t, ˈ v ɪ l-/ WIL-əm-staht, VIL-, Dutch: [ˈʋɪləmstɑt] ⓘ, Papiamento: [wiləmˈstad]; lit. ' William Town ' ) is the capital and largest city of Curaçao , an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands .
U.S. ZIP codes. Range 96950–96952. Norway: 18 March 1968 NO: NNNN, CC-NNNN From south to north NO- prefix is used recommended, but not mandatory to be used for international mail to Norway [22] Oman: OM: NNN Deliveries to P.O. Boxes only. Pakistan: 1 January 1988 PK: NNNNN Palau: 1 July 1963 PW: NNNNN, NNNNN-NNNN U.S. ZIP codes. All locations ...
The airport is located on the north coast of Curaçao, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) from the capital Willemstad. The airport connects Curaçao island to Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean. It has the third longest commercial runway in the Caribbean region, accommodating up to a Boeing 747.
Curaçao, [a] officially the Country of Curaçao (Dutch: Land Curaçao; [10] Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), [11] [12] is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about 65 km (40 mi) north of Venezuela.
The country code 599 was assigned to the Netherlands Antilles (dissolved in 2010), [1] and is in use by Curaçao and the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba). [ 2 ] Aruba and Sint Maarten , also former parts of the Netherlands Antilles, discontinued using the code in 1986 and 2011 respectively.
Avalon University School of Medicine (AUSOM) (previously Xavier University School of Medicine in Bonaire) is a private medical school located in Willemstad, Curaçao, in the Caribbean. AUSOM confers upon its graduates the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree. Administrative offices for the university are located in Youngstown, Ohio.
Saliña is a residential area in southeast Curaçao located in the eastern part of the capital, Willemstad. [2] The word Saliña in Papiamentu means salt lake. Most of the lake has been poldered for housing developments. The neighborhood started as the plantation Saliña Abou in 1726. [3]
By 1818, the population of Pietermaai had grown to 2,334 people. The population of Willemstad with suburbs was 9,536 people. [5] On 13 May 1861, a decision was made to demolish the city walls, construct a wharf in the vacant area, and built residential houses in the gap separating Willemstad from Pietermaai. [1]