The
Netherlands Antilles is a country in the Carribean
? Sea, consisting of the islands Curacao
?, Bonaire
?, [Sint Maarten]
?, [Sint Eustatius]
? and Saba
?. The first two lie north of
Venezuela, the others east of the
Virgin Islands. It is a member of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands.
In 1986 Aruba decided to leave the Netherlands Antilles and to become an independent member of the Kingdom.
From the CIA World Factbook 2000. Not Wikified.