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  2. Curaçao - Wikipedia

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    Curaçao, [a] officially the Country of Curaçao (Dutch: Land Curaçao; [10] Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), [11] [12] is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about 65 km (40 mi) north of Venezuela.

  3. Netherlands–Venezuela relations - Wikipedia

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    The ABC Islands, all dependencies of the Kingdom of the Netherlands lie less than 15 miles (24 km) off Venezuela's shores. The most populous of these territories are the island is Curaçao, whose demographics are not like that of Venezuela and much of South America.

  4. Venezuela shuts sea, air links to Dutch islands amid turmoil

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    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan officials said Tuesday that the country is banning air and sea trips to and from three Dutch Caribbean islands — a region that has been linked to efforts ...

  5. ABC islands (Leeward Antilles) - Wikipedia

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    The ABC islands is 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.

  6. Bonaire - Wikipedia

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    The island has a land area of 288 km 2 (111 sq mi), with an additional 6 km 2 (2.3 sq mi) added by Klein Bonaire, a small uninhabited island off its west coast. [ 11 ] The northern end of Bonaire is relatively mountainous, although its highest peak, Mount Brandaris , is only 240 metres (790 feet). [ 47 ]

  7. Dutch Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Doria receives a salute from the Dutch fort at Sint Eustatius, 16 November 1776. The islands of the Dutch Caribbean were, formerly, part of Curaçao and Dependencies (1815–1828), or Sint Eustatius and Dependencies (1815–1828), which were merged with the colony of Suriname (not actually considered part of the "Dutch Caribbean", although it is located on the Caribbean coast of ...

  8. Netherlands Antilles - Wikipedia

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    The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen, pronounced [ˈneːdərlɑntsə ʔɑnˈtɪlə(n)] ⓘ; Papiamento: Antia Hulandes), [2] also known as the Dutch Antilles, [3] was a constituent Caribbean country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands consisting of the islands of Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten in the Lesser Antilles, and Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire in the Leeward Antilles.

  9. Los Roques Archipelago - Wikipedia

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    The islands were sighted by early Spanish navigators, and in 1589 the governor of the Venezuelan province ordered the formal takeover of these islands on behalf of the colony. The Dutch considered Los Roques to belong to their island territory of Curaçao because of its proximity to Bonaire which also belonged to the Dutch.