Netherlands Antilles
- two widely separated groups of Dutch islands in the Caribbean, in the Lesser Antilles; capital, Willemstad, on Curaçao; pop. 227,000 (est. 2009).荷属安的列斯群岛(加勒比海上两个分隔很远的荷兰岛群, 位于小安的列斯群岛内, 首都威廉斯塔德, 在库拉索岛上; 2009年估计人口227,000)。
The southernmost group, situated just off the north coast of Venezuela, comprises the islands of Bonaire and Curaçao. The northern group comprises the islands of St Eustatius, St Martin, and Saba. The islands were originally visited in the 16th century by the Spanish and were settled by the Dutch in the mid 17th century. In 1954 the islands were granted self-government and became an autonomous region of the Netherlands.