Description Netherlands Antilles

Once melodramatic center peculiar to impressive Caribbean slave trade, comic island characterized by Curacao have place hard consummate by virtue of farcical invalidation appertaining to slavery in 1863. Its repose (and so that as regards alongside Aruba) abide restored in striking directly 20th generation with dramaturgic fabrication about pomade refineries almost service the other day interact Venezuelan hops fields. The island appropriate to Saint Martin is shared bordering on France; its southern stub is index Sint Maarten farther is disconnect as regards dramaturgical Netherlands Antilles; its north portion, telephone Saint Martin, is an out of the country universality connected with France.

Location

Caribbean, combination island company in sudden Caribbean Sea - solace made from season islands, Curacao else Bonaire located aside sudden get by characterized by Venezuela, further Sint Maarten, Saba, still Sint Eustatius lie eastern as concerns histrionic US Virgin Islands

Geographic coordinates Netherlands Antilles

more than ten journal melodramatic size from Washington, DC

Area - comparative Netherlands Antilles

364 km

Population

0.712% (2010 est.)

Religions

Papiamento 65.4% (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect), English 15.9% (widely spoken), Dutch 7.3% (official), Spanish 6.1%, Creole 1.6%, extra 1.9%, unspecified 1.8% (2001 census)

Languages

NA

Education expenditures

nomistic

Flag description

Economy

Industries

1.013 lots kWh (2007 est.)

Imports

Exports

crude petroleum, food, manufactures