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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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Oranjestad and Arikok National Park.

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is the capital and largest city of Aruba. The city is home to some of the island's local residents and also many governmental buildings. Along the main "drag" you will find mostly tourist walking around and shopping and can also see the cruise ships that bring more and more external tourism into the island everyday.

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, covering 7,907 acres in the northeastern region of Aruba, was officially established in 2000. Approximately 20% of Aruba's total land area is designated as a National Park, dedicated to safeguarding the park's biodiversity, geological formations and historical and cultural significance.

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is a town and region in Aruba. This town is known for its low rise and high rise hotels, restaurants, beaches, malls, the California Lighthouse, and other places of attraction.

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is a city in Aruba. is renowned for its two-mile long strip of beach on the Northwest end of Aruba, and is home to many water sports, piers, beach bars, restaurants, shops, and hotels.

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is a town and region in southeastern Aruba. Until 1797, it was the island's capital city. It is home to the island's oldest surviving home, a 150-year-old cas di torto, or mud hut.
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Aruba

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
.aw
Internet domain
297
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: “Aruba”
  • Chinese: “阿盧巴”
  • Chinese: “阿魯巴”
  • Chinese: “阿魯巴島”
  • Chinese: “阿鲁巴”
  • Chinese: “阿鲁巴岛”
  • Chuvash: “Аруба”
  • Cornish: “Aruba”
  • Corsican: “Aruba”
  • Corsican: “Isula di Aruba”
  • Corsican: “Paese di Aruba”
  • Croatian: “Aruba”
  • Czech: “Aruba”
  • Danish: “Aruba”
  • Dhivehi: “އަރޫބާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Aruba”
  • Dutch: “ABW”
  • Dutch: “Aruba”
  • Dutch: “AW”
  • Dutch: “Land Aruba”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨ་རུ་བ།”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨ་རུ་བཱ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “أروبا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اروبا”
  • Erzya: “Аруба”
  • Esperanto: “Aruba”
  • Esperanto: “Arubo”
  • Estonian: “ARU”
  • Estonian: “Aruba”
  • Ewe: “Aruba nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Aruba”
  • Faroese: “Aruba”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Aruba”
  • Finnish: “ABW”
  • Finnish: “Aruba”
  • French: “Aruba”
  • French: “île d’Aruba”
  • Fulah: “Aruuba”
  • Gagauz: “Aruba”
  • Galician: “Aruba”
  • Ganda: “Aruba”
  • Georgian: “არუბა”
  • German: “Aruba”
  • German: “Land Aruba”
  • Goan Konkani: “Aruba”
  • Goan Konkani: “अरुबा”
  • Greek: “ARU”
  • Greek: “Αρούμπα”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Aruba”
  • Gujarati: “અરુબા”
  • Haitian: “Aruba”
  • Haitian: “Awouba”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Aruba”
  • Hausa: “Aruba”
  • Hebrew: “ארובה”
  • Hindi: “अरुबा”
  • Hindi: “अरूबा”
  • Hungarian: “Aruba”
  • Icelandic: “Aruba”
  • Icelandic: “Arúba”
  • Ido: “Aruba”
  • Igbo: “Aruba”
  • Indonesian: “Aruba”
  • Interlingua: “Aruba”
  • Interlingue: “Aruba”
  • Irish: “Arúba”
  • Italian: “Aruba”
  • Italian: “Paese di Aruba”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Aruuba”
  • Japanese: “アルーバ”
  • 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”
  • Korean: “아루바섬”
  • Kurdish: “Aruba”
  • Kurdish: “Arûba”
  • Kurdish: “ئارووبا”
  • Ladin: “Aruba”
  • Ladino: “Aruba”
  • Lao: “ອາຣູບາ”
  • Lao: “ອາລູບາ”
  • Latin: “Aruba”
  • Latvian: “ABW”
  • Latvian: “ARU”
  • Latvian: “Aruba”
  • Ligurian: “Aruba”
  • Limburgan: “Aroeba”
  • 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: “Aruba”
  • Macedonian: “Arúba”
  • Macedonian: “Àrubà”
  • Macedonian: “Àrúbà”
  • Macedonian: “Arubo”
  • Macedonian: “Αρούμπα”
  • Macedonian: “Аруба”
  • Macedonian: “არუბა”
  • Macedonian: “Արուբա”
  • Macedonian: “ארובה”
  • Macedonian: “آروبا”
  • Macedonian: “أروبا”
  • Macedonian: “ئارۇبا”
  • Macedonian: “اروبا”
  • Macedonian: “އަރޫބާ”
  • Macedonian: “अरुबा”
  • Macedonian: “अरूबा”
  • Macedonian: “আরুবা”
  • Macedonian: “அருபா”
  • Macedonian: “అరుబా”
  • Macedonian: “ಅರುಬಾ”
  • Macedonian: “อารูบา”
  • Macedonian: “ཨ་རུ་བ།”
  • Macedonian: “아루바”
  • Macedonian: “アルバ”
  • Macedonian: “阿魯巴”
  • Macedonian: “阿魯巴島”
  • Macedonian: “阿鲁巴”
  • 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: “अरूवा”
  • Nepali: “आरूबा”
  • North Ndebele: “Arubha”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aruba”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aruuba”
  • Northern Sami: “Aruba”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “ABW”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aruba”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aruba”
  • Norwegian: “Aruba”
  • Novial: “Aruba”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Aruba”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Aruba”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Oruba”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Orubīeg”
  • Oriya: “ଅରୁବ”
  • Oriya: “ଆରୁବା”
  • Ossetian: “Арубæ”
  • Ossetian: “Аруба”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਰੂਬਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Aruba”
  • Papiamento: “Pais Aruba”
  • Persian: “آروبا”
  • Persian: “اروبا”
  • Picard: “Aruba”
  • Piemontese: “Aruba”
  • Polish: “Aruba”
  • Portuguese: “Aruba”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de 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”
  • Scots: “Island o Aruba”
  • Scots: “Kintra o Aruba”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Arùba”
  • Serbian: “Аруба”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aruba”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Аруба”
  • Shan: “ဢႃႇရူးပႃး”
  • Shona: “Arubha”
  • Sindhi: “عروبا”
  • Sinhala: “අරුබා”
  • Sinhala: “අරුබාව”
  • Sinhala: “අරූබා”
  • Slovak: “Aruba”
  • Slovenian: “Aruba”
  • Somali: “Aruba”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آروبا”
  • Spanish: “ARU”
  • Spanish: “Aruba”
  • Spanish: “aw”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Aruba”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Aruba”
  • Sundanese: “Aruba”
  • Swahili: “Aruba”
  • Swedish: “Aruba”
  • Swiss German: “Aruba”
  • Tagalog: “Aruba”
  • Tagalog: “Aruban”
  • Tagalog: “Arubana”
  • Tagalog: “Arubanes”
  • Tagalog: “Arubanesa”
  • Tagalog: “Arubano”
  • Tagalog: “Arubes”
  • Tagalog: “Arubesa”
  • Tagalog: “Arubyana”
  • Tagalog: “Arubyano”
  • Tajik: “Аруба”
  • Tamil: “அருபா”
  • Tamil: “அரூபா”
  • Tatar: “Аруба”
  • Telugu: “అరుబా”
  • Telugu: “అరూబా”
  • Thai: “Aruba”
  • Thai: “อารูบา”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་རུ་བ།”
  • Tigrinya: “አሩባ”
  • Tigrinya: “ኣሩባ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻAlupa”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Aruba”
  • Turkish: “Aruba”
  • Turkmen: “Aruba”
  • Uighur: “ئارۇبا”
  • Ukrainian: “Аруба”
  • Ukrainian: “Арубанці”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Aruba”
  • Urdu: “Aruba”
  • Urdu: “اروبا”
  • Uzbek: “Aruba”
  • Venetian: “Aruba”
  • Vietnamese: “Aruba”
  • Vlaams: “Aruba”
  • Vlax Romani: “Aruba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aruba”
  • Wayuu: “Aruuwa”
  • Welsh: “Aruba”
  • Welsh: “Arwba”
  • Welsh: “Ynys Aruba”
  • Western Frisian: “Aruba”
  • Western Frisian: “Arûba”
  • Western Frisian: “Lân Arûba”
  • Western Panjabi: “اروبا”
  • Wolof: “Aruba”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿卢白”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿鲁巴”
  • Yakut: “Аруба”
  • Yiddish: “אַרובאַ”
  • Yoruba: “Aruba”
  • Yoruba: “Árúbà”
  • Yoruba: “Àrubà”
  • Yoruba: “Àrúbà”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Árúbà”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿魯巴”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿魯巴島”
  • Zeeuws: “Aruba”
  • Zulu: “i-Aruba”
  • “Aruba”

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