An island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. The island area of Curaçao which includes the main island plus the small, uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao ("Little Curaçao"), is one of five island areas of
the Netherlands Antilles, and as such, is a part of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands. Its capital is Willemstad.
Curaçao is the largest and most populous of the three so-called ABC islands (for Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao) of the Lesser Antilles, specifically the Leeward Antilles. It has a land area of 444 square kilometres (171 square miles). On 1 january 2008 it has a
population of 140,796