Place:Aruba

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NameAruba
Alt namesOrubasource: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) p 80
TypeDependent state
Coordinates12.317°N 70.017°W
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Bushiribana
Oranjestad
Sint Nicolaas
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Aruba is a 33-kilometer-long (20 mi) island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, located north of the coast of Venezuela and approximately east of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia. Together with Bonaire and Curaçao, it forms a group referred to as the ABC islands of the Leeward Antilles, the southern island chain of the Lesser Antilles. Collectively, Aruba and the other Dutch islands in the Antilles are commonly referred to as the Netherlands Antilles or the Dutch Antilles.

Along with the Netherlands, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, Aruba is one of the four constituent countries that form the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The citizens of all share a single nationality: Dutch. Aruba has no administrative subdivisions, but, for census purposes, is divided into eight regions. Its capital is Oranjestad.

Unlike much of the Caribbean region, Aruba has a dry climate and an arid, cactus-strewn landscape. This climate has helped tourism as visitors to the island can reliably expect warm, sunny weather. It has a land area of and is densely populated with a total of 101,484 inhabitants at the 2010 Census. It lies outside the hurricane belt.

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