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Area > Comparative
more than five times the size of Washington, DC |
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Area > Land
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178 sq km
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[178th of 236]
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Area > Total
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189 sq km
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[189th of 248]
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Area > Water
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165 sq km
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[165th of 237]
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Climate
tropical; ameliorated by northeast trade winds |
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Coastline
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130 km
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[130th of 249]
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Elevation extremes > Highest point
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Mount Scenery 862 m |
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Elevation extremes > Lowest point
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Caribbean Sea 0 m |
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Geographic coordinates
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12 15 N, 68 45 W |
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Geography > Note
the five islands of the Netherlands Antilles are divided geographically into the Leeward Islands (northern) group (Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten) and the Windward Islands (southern) group (Bonaire and Curacao) |
Land boundaries > Border countries
Guadeloupe (Saint-Martin) 15 km |
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Land boundaries > Total
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157 km
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[157th of 161]
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Land use > Arable land
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114 %
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[114th of 241]
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Location
Caribbean, two island groups in the Caribbean Sea - composed of five islands, Curacao and Bonaire located off the coast of Venezuela, and St. Maarten, Saba, and St. Eustatius lie east of the US Virgin Islands |
Map references
Central America and the Caribbean |
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Maritime claims > Exclusive fishing zone
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31 nm
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[31st of 33]
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Natural hazards
Curacao and Bonaire are south of Caribbean hurricane belt and are rarely threatened; Sint Maarten, Saba, and Sint Eustatius are subject to hurricanes from July to October |
Natural resources
phosphates (Curacao only), salt (Bonaire only) |
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Population density
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52 people per sqkm |
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[52nd of 256]
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Terrain
generally hilly, volcanic interiors |
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SOURCES: The area of various small countries expressed in comparison to various areas within the United States of America.
; Total land area in square kilometres
; Total area in square kilometers
; Total water area in square kilometers
; A brief description of typical weather regimes throughout the year.
; The total length of the boundary between the land area (including islands) and the sea.
; Highest point above sea level
; Lowest point relative to sea level
; This entry includes rounded latitude and longitude figures for the purpose of finding the approximate geographic center of an entity and is based on the Gazetteer of Conventional Names, Third Edition, August 1988, US Board on Geographic Names and on other sources.
; This entry includes miscellaneous geographic information of significance not included elsewhere.
; Length of land boundaries by border country
; The total length of all land boundaries and the individual lengths for each of the contiguous border countries
; The percentage of used land that is arable. Arable land is land cultivated for crops that are replanted after each harvest like wheat, maize, and rice
; The country's regional location, neighboring countries, and adjacent bodies of water.
; The name of the CIA World Factbook reference map on which a country may be found. The entry on Geographic coordinates may be helpful in finding some smaller countries.
; Exclusive fishing zone - while this term is not used in the LOS Convention, some States (e.g. the United Kingdom) have chosen not to claim an EEZ, but rather to claim jurisdiction over the living resources off their coast; in such cases, the term exclusive fishing zone is often used.
; Potential natural disasters.
; A country's mineral, petroleum, hydropower, and other resources of commercial importance.
; People per square kilometre, in 1999. At this time the world average was 14.42.; A brief description of the topography
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Netherlands Antilles, Nederlandse Antillen, neth. antilles, the antilles
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