Unlike much of the Caribbean region, Aruba has a dry climate and an arid, cactus-strewn landscape.
Aruba has no administrative subdivisions, but, for census purposes, is divided into eight regions. In 1986, it became a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and acquired the formal name the Country of Aruba.Īruba is one of the four countries that form the Kingdom of the Netherlands, along with the Netherlands, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten the citizens of these countries are all Dutch nationals. Collectively, these and the other three Dutch substantial islands in the Caribbean are often called the Dutch Caribbean, of which Aruba has about one-third of the population.
Together with Bonaire and Curaçao, Aruba forms a group referred to as the ABC islands. It measures 32 kilometres (20 mi) long from its northwestern to its southeastern end and 10 kilometres (6 mi) across at its widest point. Aruba ( / ə ˈ r uː b ə/ ə- ROO-bə, Dutch: ( listen), Papiamento: ), officially the Country of Aruba ( Dutch: Land Aruba Papiamento: Pais Aruba), is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands physically located in the mid-south of the Caribbean Sea, about 29 kilometres (18 mi) north of the Venezuela peninsula of Paraguaná and 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Curaçao.
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