Editing Netherlands Antilles (section)

== Political grouping ==
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#ddd;"
! Flag
! Name
! <!-- Lage -->Capital
! Area (km<sup>2</sup>)
! Currency
! Official languages
! Remarks
|-
| [[File:Flag of Curaçao.svg|border|40px]]
| [[Curaçao]]
| <!-- [[File:Curacao Location.png|100px]] -->[[Willemstad]]
| style="text-align:right;"|444 
| {{nowrap|[[Netherlands Antillean guilder]]}}
| rowspan="3" | Dutch and Papiamento
| Capital of the Netherlands Antilles<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/news/regional/10/09/netherlands-antilles-no-more/ |title=Netherlands Antilles no more |date=9 October 2010 |publisher=Stabroek News |access-date=2010-10-10 |archive-date=17 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017233244/https://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/news/regional/10/09/netherlands-antilles-no-more/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Flag of Bonaire.svg|border|40px]]
| [[Bonaire]]
| <!-- [[File:Bonaire Location.png|100px]] -->[[Kralendijk]]
| style="text-align:right;"|288 
| {{nowrap|[[Netherlands Antillean guilder]]}}
|
|-
| [[File:Flag of Aruba.svg|border|40px]]
| [[Aruba]]
| [[Oranjestad, Aruba|Oranjestad]]
| style="text-align:right;"|180 
| [[Netherlands Antillean guilder]]<br>(from 1986 [[Aruban florin]])
| Seceded on 1 January 1986
|-
| [[File:Flag of Sint Maarten.svg|border|40px]]
| [[Sint Maarten]]
| <!-- [[File:SaintMartinIle.PNG|100px]] -->[[Philipsburg, Sint Maarten|Philipsburg]]
| style="text-align:right;"|34
| [[Netherlands Antillean guilder]]
| rowspan="3" | Dutch and English
| rowspan="3" |The [[SSS islands]] formed a single [[Island territories of the Netherlands Antilles|island territory]] until 1983, when it was split up into three separate island territories.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Consider this: Timeline |url=https://smn-news.com/index.php/st-maarten-st-martin-news/40732-consider-this-timeline-2.html |access-date=2024-08-18 |website=St. Maartin News Network}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Arduin |first=R.J.A. (Nilda) |date=April 2022 |title=Position paper: Initiating an approach to amending the Charter |url=http://www.sxmparliament.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IS-761-dd-07apr2022-R.J.A.Arduin-Position-paper-CCAD-roundtable-panel.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240619153358/http://www.sxmparliament.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IS-761-dd-07apr2022-R.J.A.Arduin-Position-paper-CCAD-roundtable-panel.pdf |archive-date=2024-06-19 |website=Parliament of St. Martin}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Flag of Sint Eustatius.svg|border|40px]]
| [[Sint Eustatius]]
| <!-- [[File:Location SintEustatius.png|100px]] -->[[Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius|Oranjestad]]
| style="text-align:right;"|21
| {{nowrap|[[Netherlands Antillean guilder]]}}
|-
| [[File:Flag of Saba.svg|border|40px]]
| [[Saba (island)|Saba]]
| <!-- [[File:Saba Konum.png|100px]] -->{{nowrap|[[The Bottom]]}}
| style="text-align:right;"|13
| {{nowrap|[[Netherlands Antillean guilder]]}}
|- class="sortbottom" style="background:#ccc;"
| [[File:Flag of the Netherlands Antilles (1959–1986).svg|border|40px]]
| {{nowrap|Netherlands Antilles}}
| [[Willemstad]]
| style="text-align:right;"|980 (before 1986)<br>800
| [[Netherlands Antillean guilder]]
|
| style="text-align:right;"|
|}

=== Constitutional grouping at time of dissolution ===
The [[Island Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles|Island Regulation]] had divided the Netherlands Antilles into four [[Island territories of the Netherlands Antilles|island territories]]: Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao ([[ABC islands (Leeward Antilles)|ABC]]), and the islands in the Leeward Islands. In 1983, the island territory of the Leeward was split up to form the new island territories of Sint Maarten, Saba, and Sint Eustatius ([[SSS islands|SSS]]). In 1986, Aruba seceded from the Netherlands Antilles, reducing the number of island territories to five. After the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010, Curaçao and Sint Maarten became autonomous countries within the Kingdom and Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba ([[BES islands|BES]]) became special municipalities of the Netherlands.

=== Current constitutional grouping ===
[[File:Kingdom of the Netherlands location tree.svg|thumb|300px|Countries and special municipalities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands that are located in the Caribbean (blue background)]]

The islands of the former country of the Netherlands Antilles are currently divided in two main groups for political and constitutional purposes:
* those islands that have the status of constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
* those islands that have the status of special municipality of the Netherlands alone, as distinct from the Kingdom in its entirety.

There are also several smaller islands, like [[Klein Curaçao]] and [[Klein Bonaire]], that belong to one of the island countries or special municipalities.

==== Constituent countries ====
There are three Caribbean islands that are [[Countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands|countries]] ({{langx|nl|landen}}) within the Kingdom of the Netherlands: [[Aruba]], [[Curaçao]], and [[Sint Maarten]]. (The [[Netherlands]] is the fourth constituent country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.)

Sint Maarten covers approximately 40% of the island of [[Saint Martin (island)|Saint Martin]]; the remaining northern part of the island – the ''[[Collectivity of Saint Martin]]'' – is an overseas territory of [[France]].

==== Special municipalities ====
There are three Caribbean islands that are [[public body (Netherlands)|special municipalities]] of the [[Netherlands]] alone: [[Bonaire]], [[Sint Eustatius]], and [[Saba (island)|Saba]]. Collectively, these [[Caribbean Netherlands|special municipalities of the Netherlands]] are also known as the [[BES islands]].