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Two groups of Caribbean islands, part of the
Netherlands with full internal autonomy,
comprising Curacao and Bonaire off the coast
of Venezuela (Aruba is considered
separately), and St Eustatius, Saba, and the
S part of St Maarten in the Leeward Islands,
800 km/500 mi NE area 797 sq km/308 sq mi
capital Willemstad on Curacao products oil
from Venezuela refined here; tourism is
important language Dutch (official),
Papiamento, English population (1983) 193,000