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The Netherlands Antilles ( Dutch : Nederlandse Antillen [ˈneːdərˌlɑntsə ɑnˈtɪlə(n)] ; Papiamentu : Antia Hulandes ) were a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands consisting of several island territories located in the Caribbean . They were also informally known as the Dutch Antilles . The country came into being in 1954 as the autonomous successor of the Dutch colony of Curaçao and Dependencies and was completely dissolved in 2010. The former Dutch colony of Surinam , although it was relative
The islands of the Netherlands Antilles are all part of the Lesser Antilles . Within this group, the country was spread over two smaller island groups : the northern part of the Leeward Islands and the western part of Leeward Antilles . No part of the country was in the southern Windward Islands .
The Netherlands ( i / ˈ n ɛ ð ər l ə n d z / ; Dutch : Nederland [ˈneːdərˌlɑnt] ) is the main " constituent country " ( Dutch : land ) of the Kingdom of the Netherlands . It is a small, densely populated country located in Western Europe with three island territories in the Caribbean . The European part of the Netherlands borders Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, sharing maritime borders with Belgium, the United Kingdom and Germany. The largest and most important