Netherlands Antilles
(former)
Netherlands Antilles were two island groups in the Caribbean Sea - one
includes Curacao and Bonaire north of Venezuela; the other is east of the Virgin
Islands.
The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen), also referred to
as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of
the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles:
Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire (ABC Islands), in Leeward Antilles just off the
Venezuelan coast; and Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten (SSS Islands), in
the Leeward Islands southeast of the Virgin Islands.
Aruba seceded in 1986 as a separate country
within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the rest of the Netherlands Antilles
was dissolved on 10 October 2010, resulting in two new constituent countries,
Curaçao and
Sint Maarten, with the other islands joining the Netherlands as
"special municipalities", officially public bodies.
In October 2010, the former Netherlands Antilles was dissolved and the
three smallest islands - Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba - became special
municipalities in the Netherlands administrative structure. The larger
islands of Sint Maarten and Curacao joined the Netherlands and Aruba as
constituent countries forming the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The name 'Netherlands Antilles' is still sometimes used to indicate the
Caribbean islands which are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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What is the International Telephone Dialling Code for
Netherlands Antilles?
The International Dialling Code for Netherlands Antilles
is +599.
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Curacao: +599-9
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Bonaire: +599-7
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St. Maarten: +599-5
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Saba: +599-4
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St. Eustatius: +599-3
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