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This list of autonomous areas arranged by country gives an overview of autonomous areas of the world. An autonomous area is defined as an area of a country that has a degree of autonomy, or has freedom from an external authority. It is typical for it to be geographically distant from the country, or to be populated by a national minority ...
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.
List of autonomous areas by country; List of sovereign states; List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions. List of first-level administrative divisions by population
Netherlands: Constituent country Falkland Islands: 2,931 12,173 4,700 Americas South America United Kingdom: Overseas territory Faroe Islands: 49,188 4,167 540 Europe Northern Europe Denmark: Autonomous territory French Polynesia: 285,735 1,399 1,609 Oceania Polynesia France: Overseas collectivity (Overseas country) Gibraltar: 29,328 6.5 2.5 Europe
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 ...
Country of Curaçao CUW Dutch: Curaçao — Land Curaçao Papiamento: Kòrsou — Pais Kòrsou: Willemstad: 190,338 276 km 2 (107 sq mi) Netherlands Antillean guilder Netherlands: Constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: Federal Dependencies VE-W Spanish: Dependencias Federales de Venezuela: Gran Roque: 2,155 342 km 2 (132 sq mi ...
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 ...
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.