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Aruba

Standards

Road Traffic:right side

Electricity:

Voltage:127V*

Frequency:60 Hz

Plug types:A, B, F,

Note:*Lago Colony 115V

Geography

Bordering countries:

Location:

Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, north of Venezuela

Area:

total: 193 sq km

land: 193 sq km

water: 0 sq km

Climate:

tropical marine; little seasonal temperature variation

Terrain:

flat with a few hills; scant vegetation

Economy

GDP:

$2.258 billion (2005 est.)

GDP growth rate: 2.4% (2005 est.)

GDP per capita: $21,800 (2004 est.)

Inflation rate: 3.4% (2005)

Currency: Aruban guilder/florin (AWG)

Exchange rates:

Aruban guilders/florins (AWG) per US dollar - NA (2007), 1.79 (2006), 1.79 (2005), 1.79 (2004), 1.79 (2003)

People

Population:

103,065

note: estimate based on a revision of the base population, fertility, and mortality numbers, as well as a revision of 1985-1999 migration estimates from outmigration to inmigration, which is assumed to continue into the future; the new results are consistent with the 2000 census (July 2009 est.)

Growth rate: 1.478% (2009 est.)

Religions:

Roman Catholic 80.8%, Evangelist 4.1%, Protestant 2.5%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.5%, Methodist 1.2%, Jewish 0.2%, other 5.1%, none or unspecified 4.6%

Languages:

Papiamento (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect) 66.3%, Spanish 12.6%, English (widely spoken) 7.7%, Dutch (official) 5.8%, other 2.2%, unspecified or unknown 5.3% (2000 census)

Government

Capital:

name: Oranjestad

time difference: UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)

Independence:

none (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)

Note: Information on Aruba was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Aruba, please visit one of the links below.

CIA's World Factbook on Aruba

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