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Key facts
- Capitals
- Oranjestad Kralendijk Willemstad
- Languages
- Dutch English Papiamento
- Demonyms
- Aruban Bonairean Curaçaoan
- Islands
- 2 constituent countries Aruba Curaçao 1 special municipality Bonaire
- Total
- 912 km (352 sq mi)
- 2022 estimate
- 300,000
- Density
- 298/km (771.8/sq mi)
- Gdp ppp
- estimate
- Per capita
- $47,683
- Gdp nominal
- estimate
- Hdi
- 0.833, very high
- Currency
- Aruban florin United States dollar Caribbean guilder
- Today part of
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Dutch Caribbean
- Has part
- Bonaire
- Country
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Population
- 300641
- Area
- 912
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1499-00-00
- located in/on physical feature
- Caribbean
- Commons category
- ABC Islands (Lesser Antilles)
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Encyclopedic overview
12°16′N 69°05′W / 12.27°N 69.08°W / 12.27; -69.08
The ABC islands are 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. They are a short distance north of the Falcón State, Venezuela. Aruba and Curaçao are autonomous, self governing constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while Bonaire is a special municipality of the Netherlands. Territories of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the countries, and its special municipalities, are outside the European Union; citizens have Dutch nationality and the former colonial power benefits from preferential trade, mineral and natural resource rights, particularly offshore.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ABC islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.