Island territories of the Netherlands Antilles
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| Island territories of the Netherlands Antilles | |
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| Location | Netherlands Antilles |
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| Areas | Minimum: Saba, 13 km2 (5 sq mi) Maximum: Curaçao, 444 km2 (171 sq mi) |
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The island territories of the Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: eilandgebieden) were the top-level administrative subdivisions of the Netherlands Antilles. The government of each island territory consisted of three major parts:[1]
- The island council (eilandsraad) – the local parliament, elected every four years.
- The executive council (bestuurscollege) – the executive board of the island territory, comparable to the Dutch provincial executive and municipal executive.
- The lieutenant governor (gezaghebber) – chair of the island council and executive council, appointed by the Crown for a six-year term.
List of island territories
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Aruba | Status aparte since 1986 | 180 km2 (69 sq mi) | ||
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Bonaire | 294 km2 (114 sq mi) | |||
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Curaçao | 444 km2 (171 sq mi) | |||
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SSS islands | Saba | 13 km2 (5.0 sq mi) | ||
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Sint Eustatius | 21 km2 (8.1 sq mi) | |||
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Sint Maarten | 34 km2 (13 sq mi) | |||
See also
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N.B.: Territories in italics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.
^These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which *the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands. †Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically. ǂDisputed territories administered by Guyana. ~Disputed territories administered by Colombia. #Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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