Capital: Willemstad 140,000 (2008)
Population: 304,759 (2010
Area: 999 km2
History: Discovered in the late 1400s.
Acquired from Spain: 1634.
Established: 15. December 1954.
Secession of Aruba: 1. January 1986.
Dissolved: 10. October 2010.
The Islands forming The Netherlands Antilles were:
Sint Maarten, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao.
