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Area > Comparative more than five times the size of Washington, DC
Area > Land	960 sq km		[179th of 238]
Area > Total	960 sq km		[189th of 250]
Area > Water	0 sq km		[193rd of 239]
Climate tropical; ameliorated by northeast trade winds
Coastline	364 km		[134th of 271]
Elevation extremes > Highest point	Mount Scenery 862 m
Geographic coordinates	12 15 N, 68 45 W
Land boundaries > Border countries	Saint Martin 15 km
Land use > Arable land	10%		[114th of 258]
Location Caribbean, two island groups in the Caribbean Sea - composed of five islands, Curacao and Bonaire located off the coast of Venezuela, and Sint Maarten, Saba, and Sint Eustatius lie east of the US Virgin Islands
Map references Central America and the Caribbean
Natural hazards Sint Maarten, Saba, and Sint Eustatius are subject to hurricanes from July to October; Curacao and Bonaire are south of Caribbean hurricane belt and are rarely threatened
Natural resources phosphates (Curacao only), salt (Bonaire only)
Population density	216.49 people per sqkm		[52nd of 256]
Population density > people per sq. km	228.32 people/m²		[42nd of 204]
Rural population density > rural population per sq. km of arable land	671.51 people/km² of arable lan		[34th of 188]
Surface area > sq. km	800 km²		[175th of 206]
tallest mountains > Mountain	Mount Scenery
Terrain generally hilly, volcanic interiors

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