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Netherlands Antilles |
Introduction:
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Once the center of the Caribbean slave trade, the island of Curacao was hard hit by the abolition of slavery in 1863. Its prosperity (and that of neighboring Aruba) was restored in the early 20th century with the construction of oil refineries to service the newly discovered Venezuelan oil fields. The island of Saint Martin is shared with France; its southern portion is named Sint Maarten and is part of the Netherlands Antilles; its northern portion, called Saint Martin, is an overseas collectivity of France.
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| Official name: |
Netherlands Antilles |
| Capital: |
name: Willemstad (on Curacao)
geographic coordinates: 12 06 N, 68 56 W
time difference: UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) |
| Government type: |
parliamentary |
| Population: |
223,652 (July 2007 est.) |
| Languages: |
Papiamento 65.4% (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect), English 15.9% (widely spoken), Dutch 7.3% (official), Spanish 6.1%, Creole 1.6%, other 1.9%, unspecified 1.8% (2001 census) |
| Official Currency: |
Netherlands Antillian Guilder (ANG)
Current Netherlands Antillian Guilder Exchange Rates
Historical Netherlands Antillian Guilder Exchange Rates
Chart Netherlands Antillian Guilder Exchange Rates |
| Currency code: |
ANG |
| Area: |
total: 960 sq km
land: 960 sq km
water: 0 sq km
note: includes Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten (Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin) |
| Climate: |
tropical; ameliorated by northeast trade winds |
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Map of Netherlands Antilles
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