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id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> 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href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8B%A8%E1%8A%94%E1%8B%98%E1%88%AD%E1%88%8B%E1%8A%95%E1%8B%B5_%E1%8A%A0%E1%8A%95%E1%89%B2%E1%88%8A%E1%8B%9D" title="የኔዘርላንድ አንቲሊዝ – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="የኔዘርላንድ አንቲሊዝ" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-anp mw-list-item"><a href="https://anp.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1_%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%A8" title="नीदरलैंड आन्टिलन – Angika" lang="anp" hreflang="anp" data-title="नीदरलैंड आन्टिलन" data-language-autonym="अंगिका" data-language-local-name="Angika" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>अंगिका</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9" title="جزر الأنتيل الهولندية – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="جزر الأنتيل الهولندية" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillas_Neerlandesas" title="Antillas Neerlandesas – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Antillas Neerlandesas" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiles_n%C3%AArland%C3%AAses" title="Antiles nêrlandêses – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="Antiles nêrlandêses" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Arpetan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilles_Neerlandeses" title="Antilles Neerlandeses – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Antilles Neerlandeses" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niderland_Antil_adalar%C4%B1" title="Niderland Antil adaları – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Niderland Antil adaları" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AF_%D8%A2%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%A2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C" title="هولند آنتیل آدالاری – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="هولند آنتیل آدالاری" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%B8" title="নেদারল্যান্ডস এন্টিলস – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="নেদারল্যান্ডস এন্টিলস" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4-l%C3%A2n_l%C3%A9ng_Antilles" title="Hô-lân léng Antilles – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Hô-lân léng Antilles" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%B4%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8B" title="Нідэрландскія Антыльскія астравы – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Нідэрландскія Антыльскія астравы" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%B4%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%BA%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%BB%D1%8B" title="Нідэрляндзкія Антылы – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Нідэрляндзкія Антылы" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillas_Nederlandyas" title="Antillas Nederlandyas – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Antillas Nederlandyas" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8" title="Нидерландски Антили – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Нидерландски Антили" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizozemski_Antili" title="Nizozemski Antili – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Nizozemski Antili" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilhez_Nederlandat" title="Antilhez Nederlandat – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Antilhez Nederlandat" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilles_Neerlandeses" title="Antilles Neerlandeses – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Antilles Neerlandeses" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizozemsk%C3%A9_Antily" title="Nizozemské Antily – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Nizozemské Antily" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilles_yr_Iseldiroedd" title="Antilles yr Iseldiroedd – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Antilles yr Iseldiroedd" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandske_Antiller" title="Nederlandske Antiller – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Nederlandske Antiller" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niederl%C3%A4ndische_Antillen" title="Niederländische Antillen – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Niederländische Antillen" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dv mw-list-item"><a href="https://dv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DE%82%DE%AC%DE%8B%DE%A6%DE%8D%DE%AD%DE%82%DE%B0%DE%91%DE%AA_%DE%87%DE%AC%DE%82%DE%B0%DE%93%DE%A8%DE%8D%DE%AD" title="ނެދަލޭންޑު އެންޓިލޭ – Divehi" lang="dv" hreflang="dv" data-title="ނެދަލޭންޑު އެންޓިލޭ" data-language-autonym="ދިވެހިބަސް" data-language-local-name="Divehi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ދިވެހިބަސް</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C5%BEozemske_Antile" title="Nižozemske Antile – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" data-title="Nižozemske Antile" data-language-autonym="Dolnoserbski" data-language-local-name="Lower Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dolnoserbski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollandi_Antillid" title="Hollandi Antillid – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Hollandi Antillid" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9F%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AD%CF%82_%CE%91%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%82" title="Ολλανδικές Αντίλλες – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ολλανδικές Αντίλλες" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillas_Neerlandesas" title="Antillas Neerlandesas – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Antillas Neerlandesas" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandaj_Antiloj" title="Nederlandaj Antiloj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Nederlandaj Antiloj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holandarren_Antillak" title="Holandarren Antillak – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Holandarren Antillak" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%87%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AF" title="آنتیل هلند – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="آنتیل هلند" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C3%B0urlendsku_Antillurnar" title="Niðurlendsku Antillurnar – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Niðurlendsku Antillurnar" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilles_n%C3%A9erlandaises" title="Antilles néerlandaises – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Antilles néerlandaises" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederl%C3%A2nske_Antillen" title="Nederlânske Antillen – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Nederlânske Antillen" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gag mw-list-item"><a href="https://gag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niderland_Antilleri" title="Niderland Antilleri – Gagauz" lang="gag" hreflang="gag" data-title="Niderland Antilleri" data-language-autonym="Gagauz" data-language-local-name="Gagauz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gagauz</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillas_Neerlandesas" title="Antillas Neerlandesas – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Antillas Neerlandesas" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B2-l%C3%A0n_li%C3%A2ng_Antilles" title="Hò-làn liâng Antilles – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Hò-làn liâng Antilles" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%84%A4%EB%8D%9C%EB%9E%80%EB%93%9C%EB%A0%B9_%EC%95%88%ED%8B%B8%EB%A0%88%EC%8A%A4" title="네덜란드령 안틸레스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="네덜란드령 안틸레스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%86%D5%AB%D5%A4%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A4%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D4%B1%D5%B6%D5%BF%D5%AB%D5%AC%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80" title="Նիդերլանդական Անտիլներ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Նիդերլանդական Անտիլներ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%A8" title="नीदरलान्स आन्तिलन – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="नीदरलान्स आन्तिलन" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C5%BEozemske_Antile" title="Nižozemske Antile – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Nižozemske Antile" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizozemski_Antili" title="Nizozemski Antili – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Nizozemski Antili" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandan_Antili" title="Nederlandan Antili – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Nederlandan Antili" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillas_ti_Olanda" title="Antillas ti Olanda – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Antillas ti Olanda" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1_%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B8" title="নেদারল্যান্ড এন্টিল্লেস – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="নেদারল্যান্ড এন্টিল্লেস" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillen_Belanda" title="Antillen Belanda – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Antillen Belanda" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillas_Nederlandese" title="Antillas Nederlandese – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Antillas Nederlandese" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollensku_Antillaeyjar" title="Hollensku Antillaeyjar – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Hollensku Antillaeyjar" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antille_Olandesi" title="Antille Olandesi – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Antille Olandesi" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%94%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D" title="האנטילים ההולנדיים – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="האנטילים ההולנדיים" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillen_Walanda" title="Antillen Walanda – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Antillen Walanda" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9C%E1%83%AB%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98" title="ნიდერლანდების ანტილის კუნძულები – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ნიდერლანდების ანტილის კუნძულები" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B" title="Нидерланд Антиль аралдары – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Нидерланд Антиль аралдары" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillys_Iseldiryek" title="Antillys Iseldiryek – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Antillys Iseldiryek" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antili_za_Kiholanzi" title="Antili za Kiholanzi – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Antili za Kiholanzi" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B" title="Нидерланд Антил аралдары – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Нидерланд Антил аралдары" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillae_Nederlandenses" title="Antillae Nederlandenses – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Antillae Nederlandenses" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%ABderlandes_Anti%C4%BCas" title="Nīderlandes Antiļas – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Nīderlandes Antiļas" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holl%C3%A4nnesch_Antillen" title="Hollännesch Antillen – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Hollännesch Antillen" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyderland%C5%B3_Antilai" title="Nyderlandų Antilai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Nyderlandų Antilai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antille_Olandeixi" title="Antille Olandeixi – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Antille Olandeixi" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandse_Antille" title="Nederlandse Antille – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Nederlandse Antille" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ln mw-list-item"><a href="https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiya_ya_Holanda" title="Antiya ya Holanda – Lingala" lang="ln" hreflang="ln" data-title="Antiya ya Holanda" data-language-autonym="Lingála" data-language-local-name="Lingala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingála</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiles_Nederlandes" title="Antiles Nederlandes – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Antiles Nederlandes" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingua Franca Nova</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antil_Ulandes" title="Antil Ulandes – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Antil Ulandes" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_Antill%C3%A1k" title="Holland Antillák – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Holland Antillák" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8" title="Холандски Антили – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Холандски Антили" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%81%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%81%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="नेदरलँड्स अँटिल्स – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="नेदरलँड्स अँटिल्स" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98%E1%83%A8_%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%A8_%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%99%E1%83%94%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98" title="ნიდერლანდეფიშ ანტილიშ კოკეფი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ნიდერლანდეფიშ ანტილიშ კოკეფი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%87" title="جزر الانتيل الهولنديه – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="جزر الانتيل الهولنديه" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillen_Belanda" title="Antillen Belanda – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Antillen Belanda" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B2%CC%A4-l%C3%A0ng_li%C4%81ng_Antilles" title="Hò̤-làng liāng Antilles – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Hò̤-làng liāng Antilles" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandse_Antillen" title="Nederlandse Antillen – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Nederlandse Antillen" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%B8" title="नेदरल्याण्डस एन्टिलस – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="नेदरल्याण्डस एन्टिलस" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E9%A0%98%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB" title="オランダ領アンティル – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="オランダ領アンティル" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neederluns_Antilen" title="Neederluns Antilen – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Neederluns Antilen" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_nederlandske_Antiller" title="De nederlandske Antiller – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="De nederlandske Antiller" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dei_nederlandske_Antillane" title="Dei nederlandske Antillane – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Dei nederlandske Antillane" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nov mw-list-item"><a href="https://nov.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandani_Antiles" title="Nederlandani Antiles – Novial" lang="nov" hreflang="nov" data-title="Nederlandani Antiles" data-language-autonym="Novial" data-language-local-name="Novial" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Novial</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilhas_Neerlandesas" title="Antilhas Neerlandesas – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Antilhas Neerlandesas" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%88%D8%B2_%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2" title="نیدرلینڈز انٹیلیز – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="نیدرلینڈز انٹیلیز" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antias_Hulandes" title="Antias Hulandes – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="Antias Hulandes" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Papiamentu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jam mw-list-item"><a href="https://jam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedalan_Antiliiz" title="Nedalan Antiliiz – Jamaican Creole English" lang="jam" hreflang="jam" data-title="Nedalan Antiliiz" data-language-autonym="Patois" data-language-local-name="Jamaican Creole English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Patois</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antile_Oland%C3%A8ise" title="Antile Olandèise – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Antile Olandèise" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedderlannsche_Antillen" title="Nedderlannsche Antillen – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Nedderlannsche Antillen" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antyle_Holenderskie" title="Antyle Holenderskie – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Antyle Holenderskie" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilhas_Neerlandesas" title="Antilhas Neerlandesas – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Antilhas Neerlandesas" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilele_Neerlandeze" title="Antilele Neerlandeze – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Antilele Neerlandeze" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Нидерландские Антильские острова – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Нидерландские Антильские острова" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Недерланд Антииллара – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Недерланд Антииллара" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilet_Holandeze" title="Antilet Holandeze – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Antilet Holandeze" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilli_Ulannisi" title="Antilli Ulannisi – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Antilli Ulannisi" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles" title="Netherlands Antilles – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Netherlands Antilles" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holandsk%C3%A9_Antily" title="Holandské Antily – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Holandské Antily" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizozemski_Antili" title="Nizozemski Antili – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Nizozemski Antili" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-srn mw-list-item"><a href="https://srn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakra_Antila" title="Bakra Antila – Sranan Tongo" lang="srn" hreflang="srn" data-title="Bakra Antila" data-language-autonym="Sranantongo" data-language-local-name="Sranan Tongo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sranantongo</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8" title="Холандски Антили – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Холандски Антили" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizozemski_Antili" title="Nizozemski Antili – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Nizozemski Antili" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilles_Walanda" title="Antilles Walanda – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Antilles Walanda" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alankomaiden_Antillit" title="Alankomaiden Antillit – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Alankomaiden Antillit" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederl%C3%A4ndska_Antillerna" title="Nederländska Antillerna – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Nederländska Antillerna" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles" title="Netherlands Antilles – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Netherlands Antilles" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%81_%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%A3%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81" title="நெதர்லாந்து அண்டிலிசு – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="நெதர்லாந்து அண்டிலிசு" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%98%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%94%E0%B9%8C%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%AA" title="เนเธอร์แลนด์แอนทิลลีส – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="เนเธอร์แลนด์แอนทิลลีส" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D2%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4" title="Антил Ҳоланд – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Антил Ҳоланд" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollanda_Antilleri" title="Hollanda Antilleri – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Hollanda Antilleri" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D1%96_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D1%96_%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8" title="Нідерландські Антильські острови – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Нідерландські Антильські острови" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%88%D8%B2_%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2" title="نیدرلینڈز انٹیلیز – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="نیدرلینڈز انٹیلیز" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti%C5%82e_O%C5%82andezi" title="Antiłe Ołandezi – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="Antiłe Ołandezi" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vèneto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antille_thu%E1%BB%99c_H%C3%A0_Lan" title="Antille thuộc Hà Lan – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Antille thuộc Hà Lan" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles" title="Netherlands Antilles – Waray" 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.ib-country-largest,.mw-parser-output .ib-country-lang{font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-ethnic,.mw-parser-output .ib-country-religion,.mw-parser-output .ib-country-sovereignty{font-weight:normal;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-fake-li{text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-fake-li2{text-indent:0.5em;margin-left:1em;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-website{line-height:11pt}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-map-caption3{position:relative;top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-fn{text-align:left;margin:0 auto}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-fn-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-fn-num{margin-left:1em}</style><table class="infobox ib-country vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above adr"><div class="fn org country-name">Netherlands Antilles</div><div class="ib-country-names"><span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl">Land Nederlandse Antillen</i></span> <span class="languageicon" style="font-size:100%; font-weight:normal">(<a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>)</span><br /><span title="Papiamento-language text"><i lang="pap">Pais Antia Hulandes</i></span> <span class="languageicon" style="font-size:100%; font-weight:normal">(<a href="/wiki/Papiamento_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Papiamento language">Papiamento</a>)</span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader">1954–2010</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="noresize" style="display:table; width:100%;"> <div style="display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle; padding-left:5px;"> <div style="padding-bottom:3px;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_(1959%E2%80%931986).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Netherlands Antilles"><img alt="Flag of the Netherlands Antilles" 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the Netherlands Antilles">Parliament of the Netherlands Antilles</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">History</th><td class="infobox-data"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Charter_for_the_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands">Established</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">15 December 1954</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• Secession of <a href="/wiki/Aruba" title="Aruba">Aruba</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1 January 1986</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div 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Netherlands">Kingdom of the Netherlands</a> consisting of the islands of <a href="/wiki/Saba_(island)" title="Saba (island)">Saba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sint_Eustatius" title="Sint Eustatius">Sint Eustatius</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten">Sint Maarten</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Lesser_Antilles" title="Lesser Antilles">Lesser Antilles</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Aruba" title="Aruba">Aruba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Curaçao">Curaçao</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bonaire" title="Bonaire">Bonaire</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Leeward_Antilles" title="Leeward Antilles">Leeward Antilles</a>. The country came into being in 1954 as the autonomous successor of the Dutch colony of <a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao_and_Dependencies" class="mw-redirect" title="Curaçao and Dependencies">Curaçao and Dependencies</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" title="Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles">it was dissolved</a> in 2010, when like Aruba in 1986, Sint Maarten and Curaçao gained status of <a href="/wiki/Constituent_countries_of_the_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands">constituent countries</a> within the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="Kingdom of the Netherlands">Kingdom of the Netherlands</a>, and Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Bonaire gained status of <a href="/wiki/Constituent_countries_of_the_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands">special municipality</a> of <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Netherlands" title="Caribbean Netherlands">Caribbean Netherlands</a>. The neighboring Dutch colony of <a href="/wiki/Surinam_(Dutch_colony)" title="Surinam (Dutch colony)">Surinam</a> in continental <a href="/wiki/South_America" title="South America">South America</a>, did not become part of the Netherlands Antilles but became <a href="/wiki/Suriname_(Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands)" title="Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands)">a separate autonomous country</a> in 1954. All the territories that belonged to the Netherlands Antilles remain part of the kingdom today, although the legal status of each differs. As a group they are still commonly called the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Caribbean" title="Dutch Caribbean">Dutch Caribbean</a>, regardless of their legal status.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> People from this former territory continue to be called Antilleans (<i><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillianen_in_Nederland" class="extiw" title="nl:Antillianen in Nederland">Antillianen</a></i>) in the Netherlands.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geographical_grouping">Geographical grouping</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Geographical grouping"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" title="Geography of the Netherlands Antilles">Geography of the Netherlands Antilles</a></div> <p>The islands of the Netherlands Antilles are all part of the <a href="/wiki/Lesser_Antilles" title="Lesser Antilles">Lesser Antilles</a> island chain. Within this group, the country was spread over two smaller <a href="/wiki/Archipelago" title="Archipelago">island groups</a>: a northern group (part of <a href="/wiki/Leeward_Islands" title="Leeward Islands">Leeward Islands</a>) and a western group (part of the <a href="/wiki/Leeward_Antilles" title="Leeward Antilles">Leeward Antilles</a>). No part of the country was in the southern <a href="/wiki/Windward_Islands" title="Windward Islands">Windward Islands</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Islands_located_in_the_Leeward_Islands">Islands located in the Leeward Islands</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Islands located in the Leeward Islands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This island <a href="/wiki/Subregion" title="Subregion">subregion</a> was located in the eastern Caribbean Sea, to the east of <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>. It consisted of three islands, collectively known as the "<a href="/wiki/SSS_islands" title="SSS islands">SSS islands</a>": </p> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_Saba.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saba.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_Saba.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saba.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_Saba.svg/45px-Flag_of_Saba.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Saba_(island)" title="Saba (island)">Saba</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Sint_Eustatius.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sint_Eustatius.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Sint_Eustatius.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sint_Eustatius.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Sint_Eustatius.svg/45px-Flag_of_Sint_Eustatius.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Sint_Eustatius" title="Sint Eustatius">Sint Eustatius</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Sint_Maarten.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sint_Maarten.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Sint_Maarten.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sint_Maarten.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Sint_Maarten.svg/45px-Flag_of_Sint_Maarten.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="675" data-file-height="450" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten">Sint Maarten</a> (the southern part of the island of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Martin_(island)" title="Saint Martin (island)">Saint Martin</a>)</li></ul> <p>The islands are located approximately 800–900 kilometers (430–490 nautical miles; 500–560 miles) northeast of the <a href="/wiki/ABC_islands_(Leeward_Antilles)" title="ABC islands (Leeward Antilles)">ABC islands</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Islands_located_in_the_Leeward_Antilles">Islands located in the Leeward Antilles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Islands located in the Leeward Antilles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This island subregion was located in the southern Caribbean Sea off the north coast of <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a>. There were three islands collectively known as the "<a href="/wiki/ABC_islands_(Leeward_Antilles)" title="ABC islands (Leeward Antilles)">ABC islands</a>": </p> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Aruba.svg/23px-Flag_of_Aruba.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Aruba.svg/35px-Flag_of_Aruba.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Aruba.svg/45px-Flag_of_Aruba.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Aruba" title="Aruba">Aruba</a> (until 1 January 1986)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Flag_of_Bonaire.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bonaire.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Flag_of_Bonaire.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bonaire.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Flag_of_Bonaire.svg/45px-Flag_of_Bonaire.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bonaire" title="Bonaire">Bonaire</a> including an islet called <a href="/wiki/Klein_Bonaire" title="Klein Bonaire">Klein Bonaire</a> ("Little Bonaire")</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flag_of_Cura%C3%A7ao.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cura%C3%A7ao.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flag_of_Cura%C3%A7ao.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cura%C3%A7ao.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flag_of_Cura%C3%A7ao.svg/45px-Flag_of_Cura%C3%A7ao.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Curaçao">Curaçao</a>, including an islet called <a href="/wiki/Klein_Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Klein Curaçao">Klein Curaçao</a> ("Little Curaçao")</li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kralendijk_en_Klein_Bonaire.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Kralendijk_en_Klein_Bonaire.jpg/220px-Kralendijk_en_Klein_Bonaire.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Kralendijk_en_Klein_Bonaire.jpg/330px-Kralendijk_en_Klein_Bonaire.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Kralendijk_en_Klein_Bonaire.jpg/440px-Kralendijk_en_Klein_Bonaire.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>The flat landscape of <a href="/wiki/Klein_Bonaire" title="Klein Bonaire">Klein Bonaire</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Encyclopaedie_van_Nederlandsch_West-Indi%C3%AB-Antilles_part_2-Benj004ency01ill_stitched.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Encyclopaedie_van_Nederlandsch_West-Indi%C3%AB-Antilles_part_2-Benj004ency01ill_stitched.jpg/500px-Encyclopaedie_van_Nederlandsch_West-Indi%C3%AB-Antilles_part_2-Benj004ency01ill_stitched.jpg" decoding="async" width="500" height="687" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Encyclopaedie_van_Nederlandsch_West-Indi%C3%AB-Antilles_part_2-Benj004ency01ill_stitched.jpg/750px-Encyclopaedie_van_Nederlandsch_West-Indi%C3%AB-Antilles_part_2-Benj004ency01ill_stitched.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Encyclopaedie_van_Nederlandsch_West-Indi%C3%AB-Antilles_part_2-Benj004ency01ill_stitched.jpg/1000px-Encyclopaedie_van_Nederlandsch_West-Indi%C3%AB-Antilles_part_2-Benj004ency01ill_stitched.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3969" data-file-height="5456" /></a><figcaption>Maps of the Netherlands Antilles, 1910s</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Climate">Climate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Netherlands Antilles have a tropical trade-wind <a href="/wiki/Climate" title="Climate">climate</a>, with hot weather all year round. The Leeward islands are subject to <a href="/wiki/Tropical_cyclone" title="Tropical cyclone">hurricanes</a> in the summer months, while those islands located in the Leeward Antilles are warmer and drier. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao_and_Dependencies" class="mw-redirect" title="Curaçao and Dependencies">Curaçao and Dependencies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dutch_colonial_empire" title="Dutch colonial empire">Dutch colonial empire</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lower_Town_Sint_Eustatius.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Lower_Town_Sint_Eustatius.jpg/220px-Lower_Town_Sint_Eustatius.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Lower_Town_Sint_Eustatius.jpg/330px-Lower_Town_Sint_Eustatius.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Lower_Town_Sint_Eustatius.jpg/440px-Lower_Town_Sint_Eustatius.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1232" data-file-height="910" /></a><figcaption>In the 18th century, <a href="/wiki/Sint_Eustatius" title="Sint Eustatius">Sint Eustatius</a> was the most important Dutch island in the Caribbean.</figcaption></figure> <p>Spanish explorers discovered both the <a href="/wiki/Leeward_Islands" title="Leeward Islands">leeward</a> (<a href="/wiki/Alonso_de_Ojeda" title="Alonso de Ojeda">Alonso de Ojeda</a>, 1499) and <a href="/wiki/Windward_Islands" title="Windward Islands">windward</a> (<a href="/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" title="Christopher Columbus">Christopher Columbus</a>, 1493) island groups in the late 16th century. However, the Spanish Crown only founded settlements in the Leeward Islands. </p><p>In the 17th century the islands were conquered by the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_West_India_Company" title="Dutch West India Company">Dutch West India Company</a> and colonized by The Netherlands. From the last quarter of the 17th century, the group consisted of six Dutch islands: <a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Curaçao">Curaçao</a> (settled in 1634), <a href="/wiki/Aruba" title="Aruba">Aruba</a> (settled in 1636), <a href="/wiki/Bonaire" title="Bonaire">Bonaire</a> (settled in 1636), <a href="/wiki/Sint_Eustatius" title="Sint Eustatius">Sint Eustatius</a> (settled in 1636), <a href="/wiki/Saba_(island)" title="Saba (island)">Saba</a> (settled in 1640) and <a href="/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten">Sint Maarten</a> (settled in 1648). In the past, <a href="/wiki/Anguilla" title="Anguilla">Anguilla</a> (1631–1650), the present-day <a href="/wiki/British_Virgin_Islands" title="British Virgin Islands">British Virgin Islands</a> (1612–1672), <a href="/wiki/St._Croix" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Croix">St. Croix</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tobago" title="Tobago">Tobago</a> had also been Dutch. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> Sint Eustatius, along with Curaçao, was a major trade center in the Caribbean, with Sint Eustatius a major source of supplies for the <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">Thirteen Colonies</a>. It had been called "the Golden Rock" because of the number of wealthy merchants and volume of trade there. The British sacked its only town, Oranjestad, in 1781 and the economy of the island never recovered. </p><p>However, with the discovery of oil in <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a> in the nineteenth century, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Shell" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Dutch Shell">Anglo-Dutch Shell Oil Company</a> established refineries in Curaçao, while the U.S. processed Venezuelan crude oil in Aruba. This resulted in booming economies on the two islands, which turned to bust in the 1980s when the oil refineries were closed.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The various islands were united as a single country – the Netherlands Antilles – in 1954, under the Dutch crown. The country was <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" title="Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles">dissolved</a> on 10 October 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Curaçao and Sint Maarten became distinct <a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="Countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands">constituent countries</a> alongside Aruba which had become a distinct constituent country in 1986; whereas Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba (the <a href="/wiki/BES_islands" class="mw-redirect" title="BES islands">BES islands</a>) <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Netherlands" title="Caribbean Netherlands">became special municipalities</a> within the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> proper.<sup id="cite_ref-endofNA_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-endofNA-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Curacao_Willemstad_(36699795245).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Curacao_Willemstad_%2836699795245%29.jpg/220px-Curacao_Willemstad_%2836699795245%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Curacao_Willemstad_%2836699795245%29.jpg/330px-Curacao_Willemstad_%2836699795245%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Curacao_Willemstad_%2836699795245%29.jpg/440px-Curacao_Willemstad_%2836699795245%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Willemstad" title="Willemstad">Willemstad</a></figcaption></figure> <p>From 1815 onwards <a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao_and_Dependencies" class="mw-redirect" title="Curaçao and Dependencies">Curaçao and Dependencies</a> formed a colony of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 1865 a government regulation for Curaçao was enacted that allowed for some very limited autonomy for the colony. Although this regulation was replaced by a constitution (<a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>: <i lang="nl">Staatsregeling</i>) in 1936, the changes to the government structure remained superficial and Curaçao continued to be ruled as a colony.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Dutch abolition of slavery in 1863 would hit most of the economies of the Dutch Caribbean islands hard as they were primarily slave labor-driven, plantation-based economies (the King of the Netherlands officially apologising for its part in the trade at a formal ceremony in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the exception of Aruba, where slavery was not as widespread as the island was considered too dry by the Dutch for large-scale plantations. </p><p>Economic prosperity on Curaçao and neighboring Aruba was restored in the early 20th century with the construction of oil refineries to service the newly discovered Venezuelan oil fields. </p><p>Colonial rule ended after the conclusion of the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>. <a href="/wiki/Wilhelmina_of_the_Netherlands" title="Wilhelmina of the Netherlands">Queen Wilhelmina</a> had promised in a 1942 speech to offer autonomy to the overseas territories of the Netherlands. During the war, the British and American occupation of the islands – with the consent of the Dutch government – led to increasing demands for autonomy within the population as well.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 1948 a new constitution for the territory entered into force, allowing the largest amount of autonomy possible under the Dutch constitution of 1922. Among other things, <a href="/wiki/Universal_suffrage" title="Universal suffrage">universal suffrage</a> was introduced. The territory was also renamed "Netherlands Antilles". After the Dutch constitution was revised in 1948, a new interim Constitution of the Netherlands Antilles was enacted in February 1951. Shortly afterwards, on 3 March 1951, the <a href="/wiki/Island_Regulation_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" class="mw-redirect" title="Island Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles">Island Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>: <i lang="nl">Eilandenregeling Nederlandse Antillen or ERNA</i>) was issued by <a href="/wiki/Royal_decree" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal decree">royal decree</a>, giving fairly wide autonomy to the various island territories in the Netherlands Antilles. A consolidated version of this regulation remained in force until the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The new constitution was only deemed an interim arrangement, as negotiations for a <a href="/wiki/Charter_for_the_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands">Charter for the Kingdom</a> were already under way. On 15 December 1954 the Netherlands Antilles, <a href="/wiki/Suriname" title="Suriname">Suriname</a> and the Netherlands acceded as equal partners to an overarching Kingdom of the Netherlands, established by the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. With this move, the United Nations deemed decolonization of the territory complete and removed the Netherlands Antilles from the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_list_of_non-self-governing_territories" title="United Nations list of non-self-governing territories">United Nations list of non-self-governing territories</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_1" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Driedaags_bezoek_premier_Den_Uyl_Weeknummer_74-36_-_Open_Beelden_-_58221.ogv/220px--Driedaags_bezoek_premier_Den_Uyl_Weeknummer_74-36_-_Open_Beelden_-_58221.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="165" data-durationhint="153" data-mwtitle="Driedaags_bezoek_premier_Den_Uyl_Weeknummer_74-36_-_Open_Beelden_-_58221.ogv" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Driedaags_bezoek_premier_Den_Uyl_Weeknummer_74-36_-_Open_Beelden_-_58221.ogv"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/Driedaags_bezoek_premier_Den_Uyl_Weeknummer_74-36_-_Open_Beelden_-_58221.ogv/Driedaags_bezoek_premier_Den_Uyl_Weeknummer_74-36_-_Open_Beelden_-_58221.ogv.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="384" data-height="288" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Driedaags_bezoek_premier_Den_Uyl_Weeknummer_74-36_-_Open_Beelden_-_58221.ogv" type="video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"" data-width="384" data-height="288" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/Driedaags_bezoek_premier_Den_Uyl_Weeknummer_74-36_-_Open_Beelden_-_58221.ogv/Driedaags_bezoek_premier_Den_Uyl_Weeknummer_74-36_-_Open_Beelden_-_58221.ogv.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="192" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/Driedaags_bezoek_premier_Den_Uyl_Weeknummer_74-36_-_Open_Beelden_-_58221.ogv/Driedaags_bezoek_premier_Den_Uyl_Weeknummer_74-36_-_Open_Beelden_-_58221.ogv.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="320" data-height="240" /></video></span><figcaption>Dutch prime minister Den Uyl visiting the Antilles, 1974</figcaption></figure> <p>Aruba seceded from the Netherlands Antilles on 1 January 1986 after a 30 year-long political battle for separation, paving the way for a series of referendums among the remaining islands on the future of the Netherlands Antilles. Whereas the ruling parties campaigned for the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, the people voted for a restructuring of the Netherlands Antilles. The coalition campaigning for this option became the <a href="/wiki/Party_for_the_Restructured_Antilles" class="mw-redirect" title="Party for the Restructured Antilles">Party for the Restructured Antilles</a>, which ruled the Netherlands Antilles for much of the time until its dissolution on 10 October 2010. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dissolution">Dissolution</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Dissolution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" title="Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles">Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_(1959%E2%80%931986).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_%281959%E2%80%931986%29.svg/220px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_%281959%E2%80%931986%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_%281959%E2%80%931986%29.svg/330px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_%281959%E2%80%931986%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_%281959%E2%80%931986%29.svg/440px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_%281959%E2%80%931986%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>Flag of the Netherlands Antilles before Aruba seceded in 1986</figcaption></figure> <p>Even though the referendums held in the early 1990s resulted in a vote in favour of retaining the Netherlands Antilles, the arrangement continued to be an unhappy one. Between June 2000 and April 2005, each island of the Netherlands Antilles had a new referendum on its future status. The four options that could be voted on were the following: </p> <ul><li>closer ties with the Netherlands</li> <li>remaining within the Netherlands Antilles</li> <li>autonomy as a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands (<i><a href="/wiki/Status_aparte" title="Status aparte">status aparte</a></i>)</li> <li>independence</li></ul> <p>Of the five islands, Sint Maarten and Curaçao voted for <i>status aparte</i>, Saba and Bonaire voted for closer ties with the Netherlands, and Sint Eustatius voted to stay within the Netherlands Antilles. </p><p>On 26 November 2005, a Round Table Conference (RTC) was held between the governments of the Netherlands, Aruba, the Netherlands Antilles, and each island in the Netherlands Antilles. The final statement to emerge from the RTC stated that autonomy for Curaçao and Sint Maarten, plus a new status for Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba (BES) would come into effect by 1 July 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-bzk2_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bzk2-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 12 October 2006, the Netherlands reached an agreement with Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba: this agreement would make these islands special municipalities.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 3 November 2006, Curaçao and Sint Maarten were granted autonomy in an agreement,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but this agreement was rejected by the then island council of Curaçao on 28 November.<sup id="cite_ref-bzk_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bzk-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Curaçao government was not sufficiently convinced that the agreement would provide enough autonomy for Curaçao.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 9 July 2007 the new island council of Curaçao approved the agreement previously rejected in November 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-approved_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-approved-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao_status_referendum,_2009" class="mw-redirect" title="Curaçao status referendum, 2009">subsequent referendum</a> approved the agreement as well. </p><p>The acts of parliament integrating the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Netherlands" title="Caribbean Netherlands">"BES" islands</a> (<b>B</b>onaire, Sint <b>E</b>ustatius and <b>S</b>aba) into the Netherlands were given royal assent on 17 May 2010. After ratification by the Netherlands (6 July), the Netherlands Antilles (20 August), and Aruba (4 September), the <i>Kingdom act amending the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands with regard to the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles</i> was signed by the three countries in the closing Round Table Conference on 9 September 2010 in <a href="/wiki/The_Hague" title="The Hague">The Hague</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_grouping">Political grouping</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Political grouping"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr style="background:#ddd;"> <th>Flag </th> <th>Name </th> <th>Capital </th> <th>Area (km<sup>2</sup>) </th> <th>Currency </th> <th>Official languages </th> <th>Remarks </th></tr> <tr> <td><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Cura%C3%A7ao.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flag_of_Cura%C3%A7ao.svg/40px-Flag_of_Cura%C3%A7ao.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flag_of_Cura%C3%A7ao.svg/60px-Flag_of_Cura%C3%A7ao.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flag_of_Cura%C3%A7ao.svg/80px-Flag_of_Cura%C3%A7ao.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Curaçao">Curaçao</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Willemstad" title="Willemstad">Willemstad</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">444 </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antillean_guilder" title="Netherlands Antillean guilder">Netherlands Antillean guilder</a></span> </td> <td rowspan="3">Dutch and Papiamento </td> <td>Capital of the Netherlands Antilles<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Bonaire.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Flag_of_Bonaire.svg/40px-Flag_of_Bonaire.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Flag_of_Bonaire.svg/60px-Flag_of_Bonaire.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Flag_of_Bonaire.svg/80px-Flag_of_Bonaire.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bonaire" title="Bonaire">Bonaire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kralendijk" title="Kralendijk">Kralendijk</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">288 </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antillean_guilder" title="Netherlands Antillean guilder">Netherlands Antillean guilder</a></span> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Aruba.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Aruba.svg/40px-Flag_of_Aruba.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Aruba.svg/60px-Flag_of_Aruba.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Aruba.svg/80px-Flag_of_Aruba.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Aruba" title="Aruba">Aruba</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Oranjestad,_Aruba" title="Oranjestad, Aruba">Oranjestad</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">180 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antillean_guilder" title="Netherlands Antillean guilder">Netherlands Antillean guilder</a><br />(from 1986 <a href="/wiki/Aruban_florin" title="Aruban florin">Aruban florin</a>) </td> <td>Seceded on 1 January 1986 </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Sint_Maarten.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Sint_Maarten.svg/40px-Flag_of_Sint_Maarten.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Sint_Maarten.svg/60px-Flag_of_Sint_Maarten.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Sint_Maarten.svg/80px-Flag_of_Sint_Maarten.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="675" data-file-height="450" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten">Sint Maarten</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Philipsburg,_Sint_Maarten" title="Philipsburg, Sint Maarten">Philipsburg</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">34 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antillean_guilder" title="Netherlands Antillean guilder">Netherlands Antillean guilder</a> </td> <td rowspan="3">Dutch and English </td> <td rowspan="3">The <a href="/wiki/SSS_islands" title="SSS islands">SSS islands</a> formed a single <a href="/wiki/Island_territories_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" title="Island territories of the Netherlands Antilles">island territory</a> until 1983, when it was split up into three separate island territories.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Sint_Eustatius.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Sint_Eustatius.svg/40px-Flag_of_Sint_Eustatius.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Sint_Eustatius.svg/60px-Flag_of_Sint_Eustatius.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Flag_of_Sint_Eustatius.svg/80px-Flag_of_Sint_Eustatius.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sint_Eustatius" title="Sint Eustatius">Sint Eustatius</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Oranjestad,_Sint_Eustatius" title="Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius">Oranjestad</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">21 </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antillean_guilder" title="Netherlands Antillean guilder">Netherlands Antillean guilder</a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Saba.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_Saba.svg/40px-Flag_of_Saba.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_Saba.svg/60px-Flag_of_Saba.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Flag_of_Saba.svg/80px-Flag_of_Saba.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Saba_(island)" title="Saba (island)">Saba</a> </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/The_Bottom" title="The Bottom">The Bottom</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">13 </td> <td><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antillean_guilder" title="Netherlands Antillean guilder">Netherlands Antillean guilder</a></span> </td></tr> <tr class="sortbottom" style="background:#ccc;"> <td><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_(1959%E2%80%931986).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_%281959%E2%80%931986%29.svg/40px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_%281959%E2%80%931986%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_%281959%E2%80%931986%29.svg/60px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_%281959%E2%80%931986%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_%281959%E2%80%931986%29.svg/80px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles_%281959%E2%80%931986%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></a></span> </td> <td><span class="nowrap">Netherlands Antilles</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Willemstad" title="Willemstad">Willemstad</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">980 (before 1986)<br />800 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antillean_guilder" title="Netherlands Antillean guilder">Netherlands Antillean guilder</a> </td> <td> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Constitutional_grouping_at_time_of_dissolution">Constitutional grouping at time of dissolution</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Constitutional grouping at time of dissolution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Island_Regulation_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" class="mw-redirect" title="Island Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles">Island Regulation</a> had divided the Netherlands Antilles into four <a href="/wiki/Island_territories_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" title="Island territories of the Netherlands Antilles">island territories</a>: Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao (<a href="/wiki/ABC_islands_(Leeward_Antilles)" title="ABC islands (Leeward Antilles)">ABC</a>), and the islands in the Leeward Islands. In 1983, the island territory of the Leeward was split up to form the new island territories of Sint Maarten, Saba, and Sint Eustatius (<a href="/wiki/SSS_islands" title="SSS islands">SSS</a>). In 1986, Aruba seceded from the Netherlands Antilles, reducing the number of island territories to five. After the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010, Curaçao and Sint Maarten became autonomous countries within the Kingdom and Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (<a href="/wiki/BES_islands" class="mw-redirect" title="BES islands">BES</a>) became special municipalities of the Netherlands. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Current_constitutional_grouping">Current constitutional grouping</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Current constitutional grouping"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands_location_tree.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands_location_tree.svg/300px-Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands_location_tree.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands_location_tree.svg/450px-Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands_location_tree.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands_location_tree.svg/600px-Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands_location_tree.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="555" data-file-height="343" /></a><figcaption>Countries and special municipalities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands that are located in the Caribbean (blue background)</figcaption></figure> <p>The islands of the former country of the Netherlands Antilles are currently divided in two main groups for political and constitutional purposes: </p> <ul><li>those islands that have the status of constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands</li> <li>those islands that have the status of special municipality of the Netherlands alone, as distinct from the Kingdom in its entirety.</li></ul> <p>There are also several smaller islands, like <a href="/wiki/Klein_Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Klein Curaçao">Klein Curaçao</a> and <a href="/wiki/Klein_Bonaire" title="Klein Bonaire">Klein Bonaire</a>, that belong to one of the island countries or special municipalities. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Constituent_countries">Constituent countries</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Constituent countries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are three Caribbean islands that are <a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="Countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands">countries</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>: <i lang="nl">landen</i>) within the Kingdom of the Netherlands: <a href="/wiki/Aruba" title="Aruba">Aruba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Curaçao">Curaçao</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten">Sint Maarten</a>. (The <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> is the fourth constituent country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.) </p><p>Sint Maarten covers approximately 40% of the island of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Martin_(island)" title="Saint Martin (island)">Saint Martin</a>; the remaining northern part of the island – the <i><a href="/wiki/Collectivity_of_Saint_Martin" title="Collectivity of Saint Martin">Collectivity of Saint Martin</a></i> – is an overseas territory of <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Special_municipalities">Special municipalities</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Special municipalities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are three Caribbean islands that are <a href="/wiki/Public_body_(Netherlands)" title="Public body (Netherlands)">special municipalities</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> alone: <a href="/wiki/Bonaire" title="Bonaire">Bonaire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sint_Eustatius" title="Sint Eustatius">Sint Eustatius</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Saba_(island)" title="Saba (island)">Saba</a>. Collectively, these <a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Netherlands" title="Caribbean Netherlands">special municipalities of the Netherlands</a> are also known as the <a href="/wiki/BES_islands" class="mw-redirect" title="BES islands">BES islands</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Constitution">Constitution</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Constitution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" title="Politics of the Netherlands Antilles">Politics of the Netherlands Antilles</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png/220px-EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png/330px-EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png/440px-EU_OCT_and_OMR_map_en.png 2x" data-file-width="2206" data-file-height="1358" /></a><figcaption>Map of the European Union in the world with overseas countries and territories and outermost regions</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" title="Constitution of the Netherlands Antilles">Constitution of the Netherlands Antilles</a> was proclaimed on 29 March 1955 by Order-in-Council for the Kingdom. Together with the <a href="/wiki/Islands_Regulation_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" title="Islands Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles">Islands Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles</a> it formed the constitutional basis for the Netherlands Antilles. Because the Constitution depended on the Islands Regulation, which gave fairly large autonomy to the different island territories, and the Islands Regulation was older than the Constitution, many scholars describe the Netherlands Antilles as a federal arrangement.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The head of state was the monarch of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, who was represented in the Netherlands Antilles by a governor. The governor and the council of ministers, chaired by a prime minister, formed the government. The Netherlands Antilles had a <a href="/wiki/Unicameral" class="mw-redirect" title="Unicameral">unicameral</a> legislature called the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" title="Parliament of the Netherlands Antilles">Parliament of the Netherlands Antilles</a>. Its 22 members were fixed in number for the islands making up the Netherlands Antilles: fourteen for Curaçao, three each for Sint Maarten and Bonaire, and one each for Saba and Sint Eustatius. </p><p>The Netherlands Antilles were not part of the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a>, but instead listed as <a href="/wiki/Overseas_countries_and_territories" class="mw-redirect" title="Overseas countries and territories">overseas countries and territories</a> (OCTs). This status was kept for all the islands after dissolution, and will be kept until at least 2015.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The text near this tag is dated. (July 2019)">needs update</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" title="Economy of the Netherlands Antilles">Economy of the Netherlands Antilles</a></div> <p>Tourism, petroleum transshipment and oil refinement (on Curaçao), as well as offshore finance were the mainstays of this small economy, which was closely tied to the outside world. The islands enjoyed a high per capita income and a well-developed infrastructure as compared with other countries in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-CIA_GDP_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CIA_GDP-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Almost all consumer and capital goods were imported, with <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a>, the United States, and <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> being the major suppliers, as well as the Dutch government which supports the islands with substantial <a href="/wiki/Development_aid" title="Development aid">development aid</a>. Poor soils and inadequate water supplies hampered the development of agriculture. The <a href="/wiki/Antillean_guilder" class="mw-redirect" title="Antillean guilder">Antillean guilder</a> had a fixed exchange rate with the United States dollar of 1.79:1. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles" title="Demographics of the Netherlands Antilles">Demographics of the Netherlands Antilles</a></div> <p>A large percentage of the Netherlands Antilleans descended from European colonists and African <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slaves</a> who were brought and traded there from the 17th to 19th centuries. The rest of the population originated from other Caribbean islands as well as Latin America, East Asia and elsewhere in the world. In Curaçao there was a strong Jewish element going back to the 17th century slave trade.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The language <a href="/wiki/Papiamento" title="Papiamento">Papiamentu</a> was predominant on Curaçao and Bonaire (as well as the neighboring island of Aruba). This <a href="/wiki/Creole_language" title="Creole language">creole</a> descended from <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a> and West African languages with a strong admixture of Dutch, plus subsequent lexical contributions from Spanish and English. An English-based creole dialect, formally known as <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles_Creole" class="mw-redirect" title="Netherlands Antilles Creole">Netherlands Antilles Creole</a>, was the native dialect of the inhabitants of Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten. </p><p>After a decades-long debate, English and Papiamentu were made official languages alongside <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> in early March 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-atmost_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-atmost-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Legislation was produced in Dutch, but parliamentary debate was in Papiamentu or English, depending on the island. Due to a massive influx of immigrants from Spanish-speaking territories such as the <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a> in the <a href="/wiki/SSS_islands" title="SSS islands">SSS islands</a>, and increased tourism from <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a> in the <a href="/wiki/ABC_islands_(Leeward_Antilles)" title="ABC islands (Leeward Antilles)">ABC islands</a>, Spanish had also become increasingly used. </p><p>The majority of the population were followers of the Christian faith, with a Protestant majority in Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten, and a Roman Catholic majority in Bonaire, Curaçao and Saba. Curaçao also hosted a sizeable group of followers of the Jewish religion, descendants of a <a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portuguese</a> group of <a href="/wiki/Sephardic" class="mw-redirect" title="Sephardic">Sephardic</a> Jews that arrived from Amsterdam and <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a> from 1654. In 1982, there was a population of about 2,000 <a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslims</a>, with an Islamic association and a <a href="/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque">mosque</a> in the capital.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most Netherlands Antilleans were <a href="/wiki/Dutch_nationality_law" title="Dutch nationality law">Dutch citizens</a> and this status permitted and encouraged the young and university-educated to emigrate to the Netherlands. This exodus was considered to be to the islands' detriment, as it created a <a href="/wiki/Brain_drain" class="mw-redirect" title="Brain drain">brain drain</a>. On the other hand, immigrants from the <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Haiti" title="Haiti">Haiti</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Anglophone_Caribbean" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglophone Caribbean">Anglophone Caribbean</a> and <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a> had increased their presence on these islands in later years. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Antillean_diaspora_in_the_Netherlands">Antillean diaspora in the Netherlands</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Antillean diaspora in the Netherlands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7aoans_in_the_Netherlands" title="Curaçaoans in the Netherlands">Curaçaoans in the Netherlands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arubans_in_the_Netherlands" title="Arubans in the Netherlands">Arubans in the Netherlands</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bonaireians_in_the_Netherlands&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bonaireians in the Netherlands (page does not exist)">Bonaireians in the Netherlands</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Aruba_and_the_Netherlands_Antilles" class="mw-redirect" title="Music of Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles">Music of Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_St._Martin" class="mw-redirect" title="Culture of St. Martin">Culture of St. Martin</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Saba" class="mw-redirect" title="Culture of Saba">Culture of Saba</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bulawaya-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Bulawaya-1.jpg/220px-Bulawaya-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Bulawaya-1.jpg/330px-Bulawaya-1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Bulawaya-1.jpg/440px-Bulawaya-1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2014" data-file-height="1780" /></a><figcaption>A Bulawaya dance in <a href="/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Curaçao">Curaçao</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The origins of the population and location of the islands gave the Netherlands Antilles a mixed culture. </p><p>Tourism and overwhelming media presence from the United States increased the regional United States influence. On all the islands, the holiday of <a href="/wiki/Carnival" title="Carnival">Carnival</a> had become an important event after its importation from other <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a> and Latin American countries in the 1960s. Festivities included "jump-up" parades with beautifully colored costumes, floats, and live bands as well as beauty contests and other competitions. Carnival on the islands also included a middle-of-the-night <a href="/wiki/J%27ouvert" title="J'ouvert">j'ouvert</a> (juvé) parade that ended at sunrise with the burning of a straw <a href="/wiki/King_Momo" title="King Momo">King Momo</a>, cleansing the island of sins and bad luck. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles_at_the_Olympics" title="Netherlands Antilles at the Olympics">Netherlands Antilles at the Olympics</a></div> <p>Netherlands Lesser Antilles competed in the Winter Olympics of 1988, notably finishing 29th in the bobsled, ahead of Jamaica who famously competed but finished 30th. </p><p>Baseball is by far the most popular sport. Several players have made it to the Major Leagues, such as <a href="/wiki/Xander_Bogaerts" title="Xander Bogaerts">Xander Bogaerts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrelton_Simmons" title="Andrelton Simmons">Andrelton Simmons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hensley_Meulens" title="Hensley Meulens">Hensley Meulens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Randall_Simon" title="Randall Simon">Randall Simon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andruw_Jones" title="Andruw Jones">Andruw Jones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kenley_Jansen" title="Kenley Jansen">Kenley Jansen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jair_Jurrjens" title="Jair Jurrjens">Jair Jurrjens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Bernadina" title="Roger Bernadina">Roger Bernadina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Ponson" title="Sidney Ponson">Sidney Ponson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Didi_Gregorius" title="Didi Gregorius">Didi Gregorius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shairon_Martis" title="Shairon Martis">Shairon Martis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wladimir_Balentien" title="Wladimir Balentien">Wladimir Balentien</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Yurendell_DeCaster" title="Yurendell DeCaster">Yurendell DeCaster</a>. Xander Bogaerts won two World Series with the Boston Red Sox, in 2013 and 2018. Andruw Jones played for the Atlanta Braves in the 1996 World Series hitting two home runs in his first game against the New York Yankees. </p><p>Three athletes from the former Netherlands Antilles competed in the <a href="/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics" title="2012 Summer Olympics">2012 Summer Olympics</a>. They, alongside one athlete from <a href="/wiki/South_Sudan" title="South Sudan">South Sudan</a>, competed under the banner of <a href="/wiki/Independent_Olympic_Athletes_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics" title="Independent Olympic Athletes at the 2012 Summer Olympics">Independent Olympic Athletes</a>. </p><p>The Netherlands Antilles, though a non-existing entity since 2010, are allowed to field teams at the <a href="/wiki/Chess_Olympiad" title="Chess Olympiad">Chess Olympiad</a> under this name, because the Curaçao Chess Federation remains officially registered as representing the dissolved country in the <a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_Internationale_des_%C3%89checs" class="mw-redirect" title="Fédération Internationale des Échecs">FIDE</a> Directory.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Miscellaneous_topics">Miscellaneous topics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Miscellaneous topics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Unlike the metropolitan Netherlands, <a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage">same-sex marriages</a> were not performed in the Netherlands Antilles, but those performed in other jurisdictions were recognised. </p><p>The main prison of the Netherlands Antilles was <a href="/wiki/Sentro_di_Detenshon_i_Korekshon_K%C3%B2rsou" class="mw-redirect" title="Sentro di Detenshon i Korekshon Kòrsou">Koraal Specht</a>, later known as Bon Futuro. It was known for ill treatment of prisoners and bad conditions throughout the years.<sup id="cite_ref-volkskrant_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-volkskrant-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The late Venezuelan President <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Hugo Chávez">Hugo Chávez</a> claimed that the Netherlands was helping the United States to invade Venezuela due to military games in 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Netherlands_Antilles&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jan_Mayen" title="Jan Mayen">Jan Mayen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smeerenburg" title="Smeerenburg">Smeerenburg</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible uncollapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Colonies_of_the_Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands_(1815–1975)25" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Colonies of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands" title="Kingdom of the Netherlands">Kingdom of the Netherlands</a> (1815–1975)</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" 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Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_I_Island" title="Peter I Island">Peter I Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Maud_Land" title="Queen Maud Land">Queen Maud Land</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Portugal</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Azores" title="Azores">Azores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madeira" title="Madeira">Madeira</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Spain</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canary_Islands" title="Canary Islands">Canary Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceuta" title="Ceuta">Ceuta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melilla" title="Melilla">Melilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plazas_de_Soberan%C3%ADa" 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style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_state" title="Sovereign state">Sovereign states</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><b>Entire</b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antigua_and_Barbuda" title="Antigua and Barbuda">Antigua and Barbuda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Bahamas" title="The Bahamas">The Bahamas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbados" title="Barbados">Barbados</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belize" title="Belize">Belize</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Costa_Rica" title="Costa Rica">Costa Rica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a></li> <li><a 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and the Grenadines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><b>In part</b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Archipelago_of_San_Andr%C3%A9s,_Providencia_and_Santa_Catalina" title="Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina">San Andrés and Providencia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guadeloupe" title="Guadeloupe">Guadeloupe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martinique" title="Martinique">Martinique</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Netherlands" title="Caribbean Netherlands">Caribbean 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href="/wiki/Caribbean_Sea" title="Caribbean Sea">Caribbean Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caribbean_South_America" title="Caribbean South America">Caribbean South America</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean" title="Latin America and the Caribbean">Latin America and the Caribbean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Caribbean" title="Southern Caribbean">Southern Caribbean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Caribbean_zone" title="Western Caribbean zone">Western Caribbean zone</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.5em;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">By topic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caribbean_bioregion" title="Caribbean bioregion">Bioregion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_the_Caribbean" title="List of earthquakes in the Caribbean">Earthquakes</a></li> <li><a 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</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Caribbean#Politics" title="Caribbean">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Democracy_in_Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean" title="Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean">Democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afro-Caribbean_leftism" title="Afro-Caribbean leftism">Afro-Caribbean leftism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Association_of_Caribbean_States" title="Association of Caribbean States">Association of Caribbean States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Community" title="Caribbean Community">Caribbean 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title="List of airports in the Caribbean">Airports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Basin_Trade_and_Partnership_Act" title="Caribbean Basin Trade and Partnership Act">Caribbean Basin Trade and Partnership Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Development_Bank" title="Caribbean Development Bank">Caribbean Development Bank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_banks_and_currencies_of_the_Caribbean" title="Central banks and currencies of the Caribbean">Central banks and currencies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Citrus_industry_in_the_Caribbean" title="Citrus industry in the Caribbean">Citrus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Caribbean_companies" title="List of Caribbean companies">Companies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fishing_industry_in_the_Caribbean" title="Fishing industry in the Caribbean">Fishing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_hotels_in_the_Caribbean" title="List of hotels in the Caribbean">Hotels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_stock_exchanges_in_the_Americas" 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href="/wiki/Saint_Helena,_Ascension_and_Tristan_da_Cunha" title="Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha">Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Anglo-America" title="Anglo-America">Americas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Anguilla" title="Anguilla">Anguilla</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antigua_and_Barbuda" title="Antigua and Barbuda">Antigua and Barbuda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Bahamas" title="The Bahamas">The Bahamas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbados" title="Barbados">Barbados</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belize" title="Belize">Belize</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/British_Virgin_Islands" title="British Virgin Islands">British Virgin Islands</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cayman_Islands" title="Cayman Islands">Cayman Islands</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominica" title="Dominica">Dominica</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Falkland_Islands" title="Falkland Islands">Falkland Islands</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grenada" title="Grenada">Grenada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guyana" title="Guyana">Guyana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Montserrat" title="Montserrat">Montserrat</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Saba_(island)" title="Saba (island)">Saba</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis" title="Saint Kitts and Nevis">Saint Kitts and Nevis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Lucia" title="Saint Lucia">Saint Lucia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines" title="Saint Vincent and the Grenadines">Saint Vincent and the Grenadines</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sint_Eustatius" title="Sint Eustatius">Sint Eustatius</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sint_Maarten" title="Sint Maarten">Sint Maarten</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands" title="South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands">South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago" title="Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands" title="Turks and Caicos Islands">Turks and Caicos Islands</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="United States Virgin Islands">United States Virgin Islands</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/English_language_in_Europe" title="English language in Europe">Europe</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Guernsey" title="Guernsey">Guernsey</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Ireland</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Man" title="Isle of Man">Isle of Man</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jersey" title="Jersey">Jersey</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Oceania" title="Languages of Oceania">Oceania</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Norfolk_Island" title="Norfolk Island">Norfolk Island</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands" title="Pitcairn Islands">Pitcairn 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title="Cameroon">Cameroon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eswatini" title="Eswatini">Eswatini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Gambia" title="The Gambia">The Gambia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghana" title="Ghana">Ghana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lesotho" title="Lesotho">Lesotho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberia" title="Liberia">Liberia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malawi" title="Malawi">Malawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mauritius" title="Mauritius">Mauritius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Namibia" title="Namibia">Namibia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rwanda" title="Rwanda">Rwanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sierra_Leone" title="Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somaliland" title="Somaliland">Somaliland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Sudan" title="South Sudan">South Sudan</a></li> 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