Aruba

Aruba is a desert , a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Located off the coast of , this flat, river-less island is renowned for its white sand beaches.
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is the capital and largest city of Aruba.

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, covering 7,907 acres in the…

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is a town and region in Aruba.

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Places to explore: Palm Beach and Savaneta.

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is a beach resort on the island of Aruba, part of the .

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is a town and region in southeastern Aruba.
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Aruba

  • Type: Country with 117,000 residents
  • Description: Caribbean island constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “ABW”, “Aroeba”, “ARU”, “Àrubà”, “Aruban”, “Arubana”, “Arubanes”, “Arubanesa”, “Arubano”, “Arubes”, “Arubesa”, “Arubyana”, “Arubyano”, “aw”, “AW”, “Country of Aruba”, “île d’Aruba”, “Ilha de Aruba”, “insula Aruba”, “Isla de Aruba”, “Island o Aruba”, “Island of Aruba”, “Isula di Aruba”, “Kintra o Aruba”, “Lân Arûba”, “Oruba”, “Paese di Aruba”, “țara Aruba”, “Ynys Aruba”, “Арубанці”, “अरूवा”, “아루바섬”, “アルーバ”, “荷屬阿魯巴”, “阿卢白”, “阿盧巴”, and “阿鲁巴岛”
  • Languages: Dutch, Papiamento, Spanish, and English
  • Categories: country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, island country, federated state, and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
12.505° or 12° 30′ 18″ north
Longitude of center
-69.977° or 69° 58′ 37″ west
Population
117,000
Area
193 km² (75 miles²)
Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)
Operator
Land Aruba
Capital
Currency
Guilder (AWG)
Phone code
297
Internet domain
.aw
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1770467684
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3577279
Wiki­data ID
Q21203
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Aruba” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Aruba”
  • Akan: “Aruba”
  • Albanian: “Aruba”
  • Albanian: “Arubë”
  • Amharic: “አሩባ”
  • Angika: “अरूबा”
  • Arabic: “آروبا”
  • Arabic: “أروبا”
  • Aragonese: “Aruba”
  • Armenian: “Արուբա”
  • Assamese: “আৰুবা”
  • Asturian: “Aruba”
  • Awadhi: “अरूबा”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aruba”
  • Balinese: “Aruba”
  • Bambara: “Aruba”
  • Bashkir: “Аруба”
  • Basque: “Aruba uhartea”
  • Basque: “Aruba”
  • Bavarian: “Aruba”
  • Belarusian: “Аруба”
  • Bengali: “আরুবা”
  • Bishnupriya: “আরুবা”
  • Bosnian: “Aruba”
  • Breton: “Aruba”
  • Bulgarian: “Аруба”
  • Burmese: “အာရူးဗား”
  • Catalan: “Aruba”
  • Cebuano: “Aruba”
  • Central Bikol: “Aruba”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئارووبا”
  • Chechen: “Аруба”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᎷᏆ”
  • Cheyenne: “Aruba”
  • Chinese: “阿魯巴”
  • Chinese: “阿鲁巴”
  • Chuvash: “Аруба”
  • Cornish: “Aruba”
  • Corsican: “Aruba”
  • Croatian: “Aruba”
  • Czech: “Aruba”
  • Danish: “Aruba”
  • Dhivehi: “އަރޫބާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Aruba”
  • Dutch: “Aruba”
  • Dutch: “Land Aruba”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨ་རུ་བ།”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨ་རུ་བཱ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اروبا”
  • Erzya: “Аруба”
  • Esperanto: “Arubo”
  • Estonian: “Aruba”
  • Ewe: “Aruba nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Aruba”
  • Faroese: “Aruba”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Aruba”
  • Finnish: “Aruba”
  • French: “Aruba”
  • Fulah: “Aruuba”
  • Gagauz: “Aruba”
  • Galician: “Aruba”
  • Ganda: “Aruba”
  • Georgian: “არუბა”
  • German: “Aruba”
  • Goan Konkani: “Aruba”
  • Goan Konkani: “अरुबा”
  • Greek: “Αρούμπα”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Aruba”
  • Gujarati: “અરુબા”
  • Haitian: “Aruba”
  • Haitian: “Awouba”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Aruba”
  • Hausa: “Aruba”
  • Hebrew: “ארובה”
  • Hindi: “अरूबा”
  • Hungarian: “Aruba”
  • Icelandic: “Arúba”
  • Ido: “Aruba”
  • Igbo: “Aruba”
  • Indonesian: “Aruba”
  • Interlingua: “Aruba”
  • Interlingue: “Aruba”
  • Irish: “Arúba”
  • Italian: “Aruba”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Aruuba”
  • Japanese: “アルバ”
  • Japanese: “アルバ島”
  • Javanese: “Aruba”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Aruba”
  • Kalaallisut: “Aruba”
  • Kannada: “ಅರುಬ”
  • Kannada: “ಅರುಬಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Aruba”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Аруба”
  • Kashmiri: “اَروٗبا”
  • Kazakh: “Аруба”
  • Khmer: “អារូបា”
  • Kikuyu: “Aruba”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Aruba”
  • Kirghiz: “Аруба”
  • Korean: “아루바”
  • Kurdish: “Aruba”
  • Kurdish: “Arûba”
  • Kurdish: “ئارووبا”
  • Ladin: “Aruba”
  • Ladino: “Aruba”
  • Lao: “ອາຣູບາ”
  • Lao: “ອາລູບາ”
  • Latin: “Aruba”
  • Latvian: “Aruba”
  • Ligurian: “Aruba”
  • Limburgan: “Aruba”
  • Lingala: “Aruba”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Aruba”
  • Lithuanian: “Aruba”
  • Lojban: “lo gugde’ave”
  • Lombard: “Aruba”
  • Low German: “Aruba”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Aruba”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Aruba”
  • Luxembourgish: “Aruba”
  • Macedonian: “Аруба”
  • Madurese: “Aruba”
  • Malagasy: “Arobà”
  • Malagasy: “Aruba”
  • Malay: “Aruba”
  • Malayalam: “അരൂബ”
  • Malayalam: “അറുബ”
  • Malayalam: “അറൂബ”
  • Maltese: “Aruba”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯔꯨꯕꯥ”
  • Marathi: “अरुबा”
  • Marathi: “अरूबा”
  • Mazanderani: “آروبا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Aruba”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aruba”
  • Mingrelian: “არუბა”
  • Mongolian: “Аруба”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أروبا”
  • Nauru: “Aruba”
  • Nepali: “अरुबा”
  • Nepali: “आरूबा”
  • North Ndebele: “Arubha”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aruuba”
  • Northern Sami: “Aruba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aruba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aruba”
  • Norwegian: “Aruba”
  • Novial: “Aruba”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Aruba”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Orubīeg”
  • Oriya: “ଅରୁବ”
  • Oriya: “ଆରୁବା”
  • Ossetian: “Арубæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਰੂਬਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Aruba”
  • Papiamento: “Pais Aruba”
  • Persian: “آروبا”
  • Picard: “Aruba”
  • Piemontese: “Aruba”
  • Polish: “Aruba”
  • Portuguese: “Aruba”
  • Pushto: “آروبا”
  • Pushto: “اروبا”
  • Quechua: “Aruba”
  • Romanian: “Aruba”
  • Romansh: “Aruba”
  • Rundi: “Aruba”
  • Russian: “Аруба”
  • Rusyn: “Аруба”
  • Samogitian: “Aruba”
  • Sango: “Arûba”
  • Sardinian: “Aruba”
  • Scots: “Aruba”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Arùba”
  • Serbian: “Аруба”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aruba”
  • Shan: “ဢႃႇရူးပႃး”
  • Shona: “Arubha”
  • Sindhi: “آروبا”
  • Sindhi: “عروبا”
  • Sinhala: “අරුබා”
  • Sinhala: “අරුබාව”
  • Sinhala: “අරූබා”
  • Slovak: “Aruba”
  • Slovenian: “Aruba”
  • Somali: “Aruba”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آروبا”
  • Spanish: “Aruba”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Aruba”
  • Sundanese: “Aruba”
  • Swahili: “Aruba”
  • Swedish: “Aruba”
  • Swiss German: “Aruba”
  • Tagalog: “Aruba”
  • Tajik: “Аруба”
  • Tamil: “அருபா”
  • Tamil: “அரூபா”
  • Tatar: “Аруба”
  • Telugu: “అరుబా”
  • Telugu: “అరూబా”
  • Thai: “อารูบา”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་རུ་བ།”
  • Tigrinya: “አሩባ”
  • Tigrinya: “ኣሩባ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻAlupa”
  • Turkish: “Aruba”
  • Turkmen: “Aruba”
  • Uighur: “ئارۇبا”
  • Ukrainian: “Аруба”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Aruba”
  • Urdu: “اروبا”
  • Uzbek: “Aruba”
  • Venetian: “Aruba”
  • Vietnamese: “Aruba”
  • Vlaams: “Aruba”
  • Vlax Romani: “Aruba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aruba”
  • Wayuu: “Aruuwa”
  • Welsh: “Aruba”
  • Welsh: “Arwba”
  • Western Frisian: “Aruba”
  • Western Frisian: “Arûba”
  • Western Panjabi: “اروبا”
  • Wolof: “Aruba”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿鲁巴”
  • Yakut: “Аруба”
  • Yiddish: “אַרובאַ”
  • Yoruba: “Árúbà”
  • Yoruba: “Àrúbà”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Árúbà”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿魯巴島”
  • Zeeuws: “Aruba”
  • Zulu: “i-Aruba”

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