Curaçao

Curaçao is an island in the Sea, among the group known as the alongside and . This trio is located near Venezuela, and is considered to be outside the Caribbean's so-called "hurricane zone"; vacations to the island are rarely disrupted by tropical storms.
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  • Country with about 153,000 residents
  • …has the IATA airport code CUR
  • …is operated by Land Curaçao
  • …has Willemstad as its capital
  • …uses the Guilder (XCG)
  • …has the phone code 599
  • …uses the internet domain .cw
  • …covers 444 km² (171 miles²)
  • Description: island state in the Caribbean, part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
  • Also known as
    “Country of Curaçao”
    “Curacau”
    “Curaçoa”
    “Curazao”
    “Curaςao”
    “Curocao”
    “Island Territory of Curaçao”
    “ISO 3166-1:CW”
  • Languages
    Dutch
    Papiamento
  • Categories
    country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
    island country
    locality
  • Location
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Latitude of center
12.1176° or 12° 7′ 4″ north
Longitude of center
-68.9309° or 68° 55′ 51″ west
UN/LOCODE
CW CUR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9127842095
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
7626836
Wiki­data ID
Q25279

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Curaçao” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Curaçao”
  • Albanian: “Curaçao”
  • Albanian: “Kurasao”
  • Amharic: “ኩረሳው”
  • Amharic: “ኩራሳዎ”
  • Arabic: “جزر كوراكاو”
  • Arabic: “كوراساو”
  • Aragonese: “Curaçao”
  • Armenian: “Կյուրասաո”
  • Assamese: “কুৰাকাও”
  • Asturian: “Curaçao”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kürasao”
  • Balinese: “Curaçao”
  • Bashkir: “Кюрасао”
  • Basque: “Curaçao”
  • Basque: “Curazao”
  • Bavarian: “Curaçao”
  • Belarusian: “Кюрасаа”
  • Belarusian: “Кюрасао”
  • Bengali: “কুকারাও”
  • Bengali: “কুরাকাও”
  • Bengali: “কুরাসাও”
  • Bosnian: “Curaçao”
  • Bosnian: “Kurasao”
  • Breton: “Curaçao”
  • Breton: “Kòrsou”
  • Bulgarian: “Кюрасао”
  • Burmese: “ကျူရေးကိုးစ်”
  • Burmese: “ကျူရေကိုးနယ်”
  • Burmese: “ကူရာဆောနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Curação”
  • Cebuano: “Curaçao”
  • Central Kurdish: “کوراساو”
  • Chechen: “Кюрасао”
  • Cherokee: “ᎫᎳᎨᎣ”
  • Cheyenne: “Curaçao”
  • Chinese: “古拉梳”
  • Chinese: “古拉索”
  • Chinese: “库拉索”
  • Chinese: “库拉索岛”
  • Chinese: “库拉骚”
  • Chinese: “庫拉索”
  • Chinese: “庫拉考”
  • Corsican: “Curaçao”
  • Croatian: “Curaçao”
  • Czech: “Curaçao”
  • Danish: “Curaçao”
  • Dutch: “Curaçao”
  • Dutch: “Curaçoa”
  • Dutch: “Land Curaçao”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀྱཱུར་ར་ཀོ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوراساو”
  • Erzya: “Кюрасао”
  • Esperanto: “Curacau”
  • Esperanto: “Kuracao”
  • Estonian: “Curaçao”
  • Ewe: “Kurakao nutome”
  • Faroese: “Curaçao”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Curaçao”
  • Finnish: “Curaçao”
  • French: “Curaçao”
  • French: “île de Curaçao”
  • Gagauz: “Curaçao”
  • Galician: “Curaçao”
  • Galician: “Curazao”
  • Georgian: “კიურასაო”
  • German: “Curaçao”
  • German: “Curacoa”
  • German: “Korsou”
  • Goan Konkani: “Curaçao”
  • Goan Konkani: “कुरासाव”
  • Goan Konkani: “कुरॅको”
  • Greek: “Κουρασάο”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Curaçao”
  • Gujarati: “કુરાકાઓ”
  • Gujarati: “ક્યુરાસાઓ”
  • Gujarati: “ક્યુરાસૌ”
  • Haitian: “Kiraso”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Curaçao”
  • Hausa: “Curacao”
  • Hausa: “Ƙasar Curaçao”
  • Hebrew: “קוראסאו”
  • Hebrew: “קורסאו”
  • Hindi: “कुराकाओ”
  • Hindi: “क्यूरासाओ”
  • Hungarian: “Curaçao”
  • Icelandic: “Curaçao”
  • Ido: “Kuracao”
  • Igbo: “Kurakao”
  • Iloko: “Curaçao”
  • Indonesian: “Curaçao”
  • Interlingue: “Curaçao”
  • Irish: “Curaçao”
  • Italian: “Curaçao”
  • Japanese: “オランダ領キュラソー”
  • Japanese: “キュラソー”
  • Japanese: “キュラソー島”
  • Japanese: “クラサオ”
  • Javanese: “Curaçao”
  • Javanese: “Kurasao”
  • Kabardian: “Кюрасауэ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Curaçao”
  • Kannada: “ಕುರಾಕಾವ್”
  • Kazakh: “Кюрасао”
  • Khmer: “កូរ៉ាកៅ”
  • Khmer: “គូរ៉ាសៅ”
  • Kirghiz: “Күрасау”
  • Kirghiz: “Кюрасао”
  • Korean: “쿠라사오 섬”
  • Korean: “쿠라사오”
  • Korean: “쿠라사우 섬”
  • Korean: “퀴라소 섬”
  • Korean: “퀴라소”
  • Ladin: “Curaçao”
  • Ladino: “Kurasao”
  • Lao: “ຄູຣາຊາວ”
  • Latin: “Curacium”
  • Latin: “Curatium”
  • Latin: “Insula Curacensis”
  • Latvian: “Kirasao”
  • Limburgan: “Curaçao”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Curasau”
  • Lithuanian: “Kiurasao”
  • Livvi: “Kòrsou”
  • Lombard: “Curaçao”
  • Low German: “Curaçao”
  • Low German: “Kurasau”
  • Low German: “Kurasou”
  • Luxembourgish: “Curaçao”
  • Macedonian: “Курасао”
  • Malay: “Curaçao”
  • Malayalam: “കുറാകാവോ”
  • Malayalam: “ക്യുറസാവോ”
  • Maltese: “Curaçao”
  • Marathi: “कुरकावो”
  • Marathi: “कुरसावो”
  • Marathi: “क्युरासाओ”
  • Marathi: “क्युरासावो”
  • Mazanderani: “کوراسائو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Curaçao”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Curaçao”
  • Mingrelian: “კიურასაო”
  • Mongolian: “Кюрасао”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كوراصاو”
  • Nepali: “कुराकाओ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Curaçao”
  • Northern Sami: “Curaçao”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Curaçao”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Curaçao”
  • Norwegian: “Curaçao”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Curaçao”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Curasīeg”
  • Oriya: “କୁରାକାଓ”
  • Ossetian: “Кюрасао”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੁਰਾਸਾਓ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੁਰਾਕਾਓ”
  • Papiamento: “Corsou”
  • Papiamento: “Corsouw”
  • Papiamento: “Corsow”
  • Papiamento: “Kòrsou”
  • Papiamento: “Pais Kòrsou”
  • Persian: “کوراسائو”
  • Picard: “Curaçao”
  • Piemontese: “Curaçao”
  • Polish: “Curaçao”
  • Portuguese: “Curaçao”
  • Portuguese: “Curaçau”
  • Pushto: “کوراکاو”
  • Quechua: “Curazao”
  • Romanian: “Curaçao”
  • Romanian: “Curocao”
  • Romanian: “teritoriul insular Curaçao”
  • Romansh: “Curaçao”
  • Russian: “Кюрасао”
  • Rusyn: “Кюрасао”
  • Sardinian: “Curaçao”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Curaçao”
  • Scots: “Curaçao”
  • Scots: “Kintra o Curaçao”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Curaçao”
  • Serbian: “Курасао”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Curaçao”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kurasao”
  • Shan: “ၵူးရႃႇသၢဝ်ႇ”
  • Sindhi: “ڪيوراسائو”
  • Sindhi: “ڪيوريسو”
  • Sinhala: “කුරකාවෝ”
  • Sinhala: “කුරසාඕ”
  • Slovak: “Curaçao”
  • Slovenian: “Curaçao”
  • Slovenian: “cw”
  • Slovenian: “Kurasav”
  • Slovenian: “otok Curaçao”
  • Somali: “Kurakaaw”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوراسائو”
  • Spanish: “Curazao”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Curazao”
  • Spanish: “País de Curazao”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Korsow”
  • Sundanese: “Kuraso”
  • Swahili: “Curacao”
  • Swahili: “Korsou”
  • Swedish: “Curaçao”
  • Swedish: “Curacau”
  • Swiss German: “Curaçao”
  • Tagalog: “Curaçao”
  • Tajik: “Кюрасао”
  • Tamil: “குராகவ்”
  • Tamil: “குராசோ”
  • Tamil: “குறக்ககோ”
  • Tamil: “கோர்சாவ்”
  • Tatar: “Кюрасао”
  • Telugu: “కురాకావో”
  • Telugu: “క్యురసావో”
  • Telugu: “క్యూరసో”
  • Thai: “กือราเซา”
  • Thai: “กูราเซา”
  • Thai: “คูราเซา”
  • Tigrinya: “ኩራካዎ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kulasao”
  • Turkish: “Curaçao”
  • Turkish: “Kurasao”
  • Turkmen: “Kýurasao”
  • Tyap: “Kura̱sa̱u”
  • Uighur: “كۇراچاۋ”
  • Uighur: “كۇراسو ئارىلى”
  • Ukrainian: “Курасао”
  • Ukrainian: “Кюрасао”
  • Urdu: “کیوراساؤ”
  • Urdu: “کیوراکاؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Kyurasao”
  • Venetian: “Curaçao”
  • Vietnamese: “Curaçao”
  • Vietnamese: “Lãnh thổ Curaçao”
  • Vietnamese: “Lãnh thổ đảo Curaçao”
  • Vietnamese: “Nước Curaçao”
  • Vlaams: “Curaçao”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Curaçao”
  • Welsh: “Curaçao”
  • Welsh: “Cwracao”
  • Western Frisian: “Curaçao”
  • Western Frisian: “Kurasao”
  • Western Frisian: “Kurasau”
  • Western Panjabi: “کراساؤ”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیوراساؤ”
  • Wolof: “Kursawo”
  • Wu Chinese: “库拉索”
  • Yakut: “Кюрасао”
  • Yiddish: “קוראַסאַא”
  • Yoruba: “Curaçao”
  • Yue Chinese: “古拉索島”
  • Zeeuws: “Curaçao”
  • Zulu: “i-Curaçao”
  • “CUW”
  • “ma Kosu”

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