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Also known as BES islands, Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba

grouping of the Caribbean islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba, part of the Netherlands

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The Caribbean Netherlands refers to three small islands—Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba—that are located in the Caribbean Sea but governed as part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. These islands matter because they extend Dutch sovereignty into the Caribbean region and are home to distinct communities with their own local cultures and economies.

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Part of
Caribbean
Has part
Saba
Official name
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba
Located in
Netherlands
Continent
North America
Official language
Papiamento
Population
29418
Area
322
Highest point
Mount Scenery
Official website
www.rijksdienstcn.com
Image
Bonaire (34769022732).jpg
Calling code
+599
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driving side
right
Commons category
Caribbean Netherlands
top-level Internet domain
.nl
located in/on physical feature
Caribbean
inception
2010-10-10
maritime identification digits
306
language used
Papiamento
different from
Dutch Caribbean
Unicode character
🇧🇶
native label
Hulanda Karibense
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Encyclopedic overview

The Caribbean Netherlands (Dutch: Caribisch Nederland, pronounced [kaˈribis ˈneːdərlɑnt] ) is a geographic region of the Netherlands located outside Europe, in the Caribbean, consisting of three special municipalities. These are the islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba, as they are also known in legislation, or the BES islands for short. The islands are officially classified as public bodies in the Netherlands and as overseas territories of the European Union; as such, European Union law does not automatically apply to them.

Bonaire (including the islet of Klein Bonaire) is one of the Leeward Antilles and is located close to the coast of Venezuela. Sint Eustatius and Saba are in the main Lesser Antilles group and are located south of Sint Maarten and northwest of Saint Kitts and Nevis. The Caribbean Netherlands, a term distinct from the comprehensive Dutch Caribbean, has a population of 31,980.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caribbean Netherlands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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