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Nederlandse Antillen Antias Hulandes
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Nederlandse Antillen
De Nederlandse Antillen waren een land binnen het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, bestaande uit zes, later vijf, eilanden in de Caraïbische Zee behorende tot twee eilandengroepen van de Kleine Antillen. De hoofdstad en tevens verreweg de grootste stad van de Nederlandse Antillen is Willemstad op het eiland ► Curaçao. De Antillen bestonden verder uit ► Aruba (tot 1986), ► Bonaire, ► Sint Maarten, ► Saba en ► Sint Eustatius.
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Antias Hulandes
E Antias Hulandes òf Antias Neerlandes ta parti di e Antias Menor i ta konsistí di dos grupo di isla den Laman Karibe ku ta forma parti di Reino Hulandes.
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Netherlands Antilles - Netherlands Antilles
The Netherlands Antilles were part of the Lesser Antilles and consist of two groups of islands in the Caribbean Sea: Curaçao and Bonaire (just off the ► Venezuelan coast near ► Aruba), and ► Sint Eustatius, ► Saba and the ► southern part of Saint Martin Island (located southeast of the ► Virgin Islands and near ► Anguilla, ► Saint Kitts and Nevis and ► Guadeloupe). It has a border with France at ► Saint-Martin. The islands formed an autonomous part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The Netherlands Antilles dissolved on 10-10-2010. Two of the five islands areas became separate countries inside the kingdom: ► Curaçao and ► Sint Maarten, the other three islands became municipalities of the Netherlands.
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Netherlands Antilles
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Netherlands Antilles
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Country inside the Kingdom of the ► Netherlands, Dutch since the 17th century
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Caribbean
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Willemstad
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183,000 inhabitants
| Area
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960 km²
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Dutch, Papiamentu and English
| Major religion(s)
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Roman Catholicism and Protestantism
| More information
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Netherlands Antilles, Geography of the Netherlands Antilles, History of the Netherlands Antilles and Politics of the Netherlands Antilles
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Netherlands Antilles - Netherlands Antilles (Category).
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