Dutch Antilles

The Dutch Antilles is the sub-supraregion of the French/Dutch LAC comprising those nations in Central America , South America and the Caribbean which are former Dutch colonies, and now are"special municipalities" of the Netherlands or autonomous countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

We use the phrase "Netherlands Antilles" to refer to the former country to which all of those (inclujding Aruba) used to belong - which was finally dissolved in October 2010.

Islands

1. Aruba - a country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, until 1986 in the Netherlands Antilles
2. the constituent parts of the former Netherlands Antilles until October 2010:
   • Curaçao and Sint Maarten - now countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
   • Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba - now special municipalities of the Netherlands

On the mainland - of South America

1. Suriname - a Dutch-speaking sovereign state

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