Once the center of the Caribbean slave trade, the island of Curacao was hard hit by the abolition of slavery in 1863. Its prosperity (and that of neighboring Aruba) was restored in the early 20th century with the construction of oil refineries to service the newly discovered Venezuelan oil fields. The island of Saint Martin is shared with France its southern portion is named Sint Maarten and is part of the Netherlands Antilles its northern portion is called Saint-Martin and is part of Guadeloupe (France).
Location Caribbean, two island groups in the Caribbean Sea - composed of five islands, Curacao and Bonaire located off the coast of Venezuela, and St. Maarten, Saba, and St. Eustatius lie east of the US Virgin Islands
Barber(5),
Bella Vista(2),
Bonaire(3),
Buena Vista(10),
Cul de Sac(64),
Cupe Coy(2),
Curacao(3),
Diamond(2),
Dorp Soto(1),
Fontein(11),
Hato(4),
Julianadorp(3),
Koolbaai(25),
Kralendijk(342),
Kunuku Abou(1),
Lagun(18),
Oranjestad(154),
Paradijs(12),
Philipsburg(28),
Prospect(1),
Saba(1),
Sabana Westpunt(8),
Saint Martin(343),
Saint Peter(99),
San Pedro(2),
Santa Cruz(22),
Santa Maria(1),
Sint Maarten(3),
Spring Garden(1),
Willemstad(574),
Windsor(2)