Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles

Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles
	The Netherlands Antilles before its complete dissolution in 2010
Date	1 January 1986 (Aruba),; 10 October 2010
Location	Netherlands Antilles
Participants	Governments of the island territories of the Netherlands Antilles; Government of the Netherlands Antilles; Government of the Netherlands;
Outcome	Separation of Aruba in 1986 (Status aparte), complete dissolution in 2010

The Netherlands Antilles was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was dissolved on 10 October 2010.

After dissolution, the "BES islands" of the Dutch Caribbean—Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba—became the Caribbean Netherlands, "special municipalities" of the Netherlands proper—a structure that only exists in the Caribbean. Meanwhile Curaçao and Sint Maarten became constituent countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, along the lines of Aruba, which had separated from the Netherlands Antilles on 1 January 1986.

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