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ID: 7004548
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Record Type: administrative |
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Aruba (dependent state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 12 30 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 12.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 069 58 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -69.9667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Earliest inhabitants were Arawak Amerindians, who left cave drawings, pottery & tools; claimed by Spain in 1499; center of piracy; unlike on other W Indies islands, Amerindians were not exterminated; Dutch settled island beginning in 1634; official language is Dutch, though Papiamento is widely spoken. |
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| Aruba (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Aruba (Dutch-P,U,N)
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| Oruba (C,O)
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| ABW (C,O,ISO3L)
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| AW (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO533 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| AA00 (C,O,FIPS)
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| Aruban (C,V)
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Aruba (dependent state) (P) |
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Aruba (dependent state) (P) |
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| dependent state (preferred, C) |
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Dutch possession since 1816, separate from Netherlands Antilles since January 1, 1986 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| island (C) |
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