| has gloss | eng: The Netherlands Antilles, previously known as the Netherlands West Indies, Dutch Antilles, or Dutch West Indies, is a sovereign Caribbean island nation that is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands Antilles comprises two groups of islands located in the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea: Curaçao and Bonaire, just off the Venezuelan coast, and Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten, located southeast of the Virgin Islands. The islands' economy depends mostly upon tourism, international financial services, international commerce and shipping and petroleum. |
