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Curacao

Capital Willemstad
Area Sq Km 444
Area Sq Miles 171
Population 115 448
Languages Dutch, Papiamento
Religions Protestant, Roman, Catholic
Currency NA guilder
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Curacao

Economy Overview
Curaçao is the most prosperous of the Netherlands Antilles island group. The capital, Willemstad, is at the centre of a network of 'offshore' banking facilities and other financial services. Curaçao also houses one of the largest dry docks in the western Caribbean: its operations have recently become profitable after years of loss-making. Oil refining and transhipment are the other key economic activities. Import substitution has also been successfully pursued and a wide range of consumer goods are now produced locally. Venezuela, which supplies most of the crude oil for the refineries, and the USA are the island's principal trading partners.
Government
Curaçao is a constituent island of the Netherlands Antilles; the others being Bonaire, Saba, St Eustatius and St Maarten. The Netherlands Antilles, Aruba and The Netherlands each have equal status within the Kingdom of the Netherlands as regions autonomous in internal affairs. The Dutch monarch is represented locally by a Governor, while the Netherlands Antilles are represented in the Government of the Kingdom by a Minister Plenipotentiary. Foreign policy and defence matters are decided by a Council of Ministers of the Kingdom, including the Plenipotentiary, and executed under the authority of the Governor. The internal affairs of the islands are administered by the central government of the Netherlands Antilles, based in Willemstad, Curaçao, responsible to the Staten, or legislative assembly. Curaçao may elect by non-compulsory adult suffrage 14 out of 22 members to the Staten. Routine local affairs on each island group (Bonaire, Curaçao and the Windward Islands) are managed by an elected Island Council, presided over by a Lieutenant Governor.

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