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Key facts
- Capitals
- Oranjestad Kralendijk Willemstad
- Languages
- Dutch English Papiamento
- Demonyms
- Aruban Bonairean Curaçaoan
- Islands
- 2 constituent countries Aruba Curaçao 1 special municipality Bonaire
- Total
- 912 km (352 sq mi)
- 2022 estimate
- 300,000
- Density
- 298/km (771.8/sq mi)
- Gdp ppp
- estimate
- Per capita
- $47,683
- Gdp nominal
- estimate
- Hdi
- 0.833, very high
- Currency
- Aruban florin United States dollar Caribbean guilder
- Today part of
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 300641
- Area
- 912
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1499-00-00
- Commons category
- ABC Islands (Lesser Antilles)
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12°16′N 69°05′W / 12.27°N 69.08°W / 12.27; -69.08
The ABC islands are the physical group of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. These islands have a shared political history and a status of Dutch underlying ownership, since the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 ceded them back to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as Curaçao and Dependencies from 1815. They are a short distance north of the Falcón State, Venezuela. Aruba and Curaçao are autonomous, self governing constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while Bonaire is a special municipality of the Netherlands. Territories of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the countries, and its special municipalities, are outside the European Union; citizens have Dutch nationality and the former colonial power benefits from preferential trade, mineral and natural resource rights, particularly offshore.