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