Place:Netherlands Antilles

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NameNetherlands Antilles
Alt namesAntilhas Holandesassource: Rand McNally Atlas (1994) p 319
Antillas Holandesassource: Rand McNally Atlas (1986) I-39
Antillas Neerlandesessource: Rand McNally Atlas (1994) p 319
Antilles holandaisesource: Rand McNally Atlas (1986) I-39
Antilles néerlandaisessource: Cassell's French Dictionary (1981) p 508
Curaçaosource: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) p 822-825
Dutch Antillessource: Family History Library Catalog
Dutch West Indiessource: Times Atlas of World History (1993) p 351
Nederlandse Antillensource: Wikipedia
Netherlands West Indiessource: Wikipedia
Niederländische Antillensource: Cassell's German Dictionary (1982) p 43
ANTsource: Abbreviation
TypeDependent state
Coordinates12.167°N 69°W
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Barber
Hato
Jan Doret
Montaña
New Port
Rincón
Santa Maria
Santa Rosa
Sint Kruis
Sint Willebrordus
Soto
Westpunt
Island
Bonaire
Island region
Curaçao
Saba
Sint Eustatius
Sint Maarten
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen , Papiamentu: Antia Hulandes), also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Although the country has now been dissolved, all of its constituent islands remain part of the kingdom under a different legal status and the term is still used to refer to these Dutch Caribbean islands.

There were two island groups in the Netherlands Antilles, both in the Lesser Antilles. The ABC islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao are in the Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast, and the SSS islands of Sint Maarten, Saba, and Sint Eustatius are in the Leeward Islands southeast of the Virgin Islands.

Aruba became a separate country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1986. The rest of the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved on 10 October 2010,[1] with Curaçao and Sint Maarten becoming two new constituent countries and with the other islands becoming special municipalities within the Netherlands.

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