Search for Posts, Maps, and Topics
ARUBA, being the westernmost island in the Lesser Antilles island group, broke away from the Netherlands Antilles (a former 'autonomous country' belonging to the Netherlands) in 1986 and became a constituent country in October 2010 - right when the Netherlands Antilles dissolved. Bonaire and Curaçao, formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles just like Aruba, are located east of Aruba. The island lies immediately north of Venezuela and, more specifically, the upside down golf club-shaped Paraguaná Peninsula. The capital is Oranjestad, which has 33,000 inhabitants. Arubans use the Aruban Florin for their currency. Its ISO 4217 currency code is AWG.
Learn more about the now-defunct Netherlands Antilles (link to my post)!
Blog Content
● The author of this GeoFact of the Day Blog creates and curates original, authentic content and posts information based on established facts. Blog posts are not generated by artificial intelligence (AI) but published by the author.
● Content and image graphics from other sources are properly credited. Many geography facts are well-established and therefore do not belong to any one source, but occasionally a fact requires attribution/credit if it is unique and hard-to-find — for example, facts found from specific cultural, anthropological, geological, and scientific (etc.) research.
● I do not copy and paste from other websites. Therefore, all posts are original but may sometimes include information, links, and/or images from credited external sources. To use a GeoFact of the Day Blog image for your website or project, write a comment below a post — then I may approve your request.
● Feel free to offer comments, suggestions, and compliments on any post or page! You can be anonymous. Spam comments with non-relevant links will be deleted.
● Thanks for your loyal readership on the educational and reliable GeoFact of the Day Blog, in existence since 2008!
No comments:
Post a Comment