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The term " Dutch Caribbean " may refer to the three special municipalities (e.g. for stamps), but may also refer to all of the Caribbean islands within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The population of the Caribbean Netherlands is 26,706. [13] [14] Their total area is 328 square kilometres (127 sq mi).
Andrew Doria receives a salute from the Dutch fort at Sint Eustatius, 16 November 1776. The islands of the Dutch Caribbean were, formerly, part of Curaçao and Dependencies (1815–1828), or Sint Eustatius and Dependencies (1815–1828), which were merged with the colony of Suriname (not actually considered part of the "Dutch Caribbean", although it is located on the Caribbean coast of ...
- 980 km² (380 sq mi)
- US$8.911 billion
All six islands were conquered by the Netherlands between 1631 and 1648. The SSS Islands – Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten – are located nearly a thousand kilometres north of the ABC Islands – Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. Along with Surinam, they constitute what the Dutch commonly used to refer to as “the West”.
The Caribbean Netherlands is a geographic region of the Netherlands located outside of Europe, in the Caribbean, consisting of three so-called special municipalities. These are the islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, as they are also known in legislation, or the BES islands for short. The islands are officially classified as public bodies in the Netherlands and as overseas territories ...
