Official Name: Curacao
(English pronunciation: Kwoor uh So')
Location: Caribbean
island 35 miles north of Venezuela, part of Netherlands Antilles
Capital: Willemstad
Subdivisions: None
Population: 148,000
Language: Dutch (official);
Papiamento,a Spanish-Portuguese- Dutch-English dialect predominates; English
and Spanish widely spoken
Monetary Unit: Netherlands
Antillean guilder, gulden, or florin
Government: Division
of the Netherlands Antilles, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Religion: Roman Catholic,
Protestant, Jewish, Seventh-Day Adventist
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CURACAO,