Domain names

General information Netherlands Antilles


The Netherlands Antilles, previously known as the Netherlands West Indies or Dutch Antilles/West Indies, is part of the Lesser Antilles and consists of two groups of islands in the Caribbean Sea: CuraƧao and Bonaire, just off the Venezuelan coast, and Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten, located southeast of the Virgin Islands. The islands form an autonomous part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The islands' economy depends mostly upon tourism and petroleum.

General information

CountryNetherlands Antilles
Top-level domain (ccTLD)an
Population223
LanguageCatalan (official), French, Castilian, Portuguese
CurrencyNetherlands Antillean guilder (ANG)
Telephone+599
Area+960 km2
ContinentNorth-america

Flag

white, with a horizontal blue stripe in the center superimposed on a vertical red band, also centered; five white, five-pointed stars are arranged in an oval pattern in the center of the blue band; the five stars represent the five main islands of Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten