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Updates: 

I added a population history from source [1].

Country overview: 

Short name	Cura�ao
ISO code	CW
FIPS code	UC
Language	Dutch (nl)
Time zone	-4
Capital	Willemstad

 

Cura�ao was part of the Netherlands Antilles, a colony of the Netherlands, until 2010-10-10. On that date it became an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Other names of country: 

1. Russian: Кюрасао
2. Spanish: Curazao

Origin of name: 

possibly from Portuguese cora��o: heart, or cura��o: healing; or from an ethnic name.

Primary subdivisions: 

Cura�ao has no known administrative divisions.

Country	HASC	Population	Area(km.�)	Area(mi.�)	Capital
Cura�ao	CW.CU	150,563	444	171	Willemstad
Country: This division is the whole of the country, treated as a division for compatibility. HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision code. Population: 2011-03-26 census (source [1]).

 

ISO 3166-2 provides two codes for Cura�ao. Considered as a separate country, its code is CW. Considered as part of the Netherlands, its code is NL-CW.

Territorial extent: 

The country consists only of Cura�ao Island, the much smaller Klein Cura�ao Island, and other islets immediately offshore.

The UN LOCODE page  for Cura�ao lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.

Change history: 

2010-10-10: Cura�ao was split from the former Netherlands Antilles. In its previous status, its HASC code was AN.CU. Willemstad had been the capital of Netherlands Antilles.

Population history:

Date	Population
1930	50,165
1960-12-31	125,181
1971-12-31	146,884
1981-02-01	147,388
1992-01-27	144,097
2001-01-29	130,627
2011-03-26	150,563

Sources: 

1. [1] Eerste Resultaten Census 2011  (First Results of the 2011 Census). Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, Willemstad, 2012-07-31 (retrieved 2014-01-31).