Travel & technology
Electric power
- Plug shape
- Voltage
- 120V or 220V, 50Hz
Phone dialing
- Code to call Netherlands Antilles
- +599
What every visitor should know about Netherlands Antilles:
- Money
- The currency is the Netherlands Antillean gulden (ANG). 1 ANG is worth about US$0.56, or €0.40.
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 4 out of 5 (Safe)
Areas of concern:
- Mugging
- Pick-pocketing / bag-snatching
- Capital
- Willemstad (on Curacao)
- Tap water
- Safe in cities, but bottled water is advisable in rural areas.
Netherlands Antilles facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 227,049
- Language
- Papiamento 65.4% (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect), English 15.9% (widely spoken), Dutch 7.3% (official), Spanish 6.1%, Creole 1.6%, other 1.9%, unspecified 1.8%
- Ethnicity
- Mixed black 85%, other 15% (includes Carib Amerindian, white, East Asian)
Economy
- GDP
- US$16,000 (per capita)