(English)

The island of Curaçao was first settled by the Arawaks, an Amerindian people native to the area. They are believed to have inhabited the island for many hundreds of years before the arrival of Europeans.

Curaçao is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about 65 km (40 mi) north of the Venezuelan coast. It is a constituent country (Dutch: land) of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The country was formerly part of the Curaçao and Dependencies colony (1815–1954) and is now formally called the Country of Curaçao (Dutch: Land Curaçao;[7] Papiamento: Pais Kòrsou);[8] it includes the main island of Curaçao and the uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao ("Little Curaçao"). It has a population over 160,000 in an area of 444 km2 (171 sq mi), and its capital is Willemstad.

Before the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010, Curaçao was administered as the "Island Territory of Curaçao"[9] (Dutch: Eilandgebied Curaçao, Papiamento: Teritorio Insular di Kòrsou), one of five island territories of the former Netherlands Antilles.

(Papiamentu)

Kòrsou (òf Curaçao) ta un isla i un pais den Reino Hulandes den parti zùit di Karibe for di e kosta di Venezuela. E isla ta esun mas grandi i mas populá di e tres islanan ABC (ta para pa Aruba, Boneiru). Kòrsou su kapital ta Willemstad. Kòrsou a haña su Status Aparte huntu ku Sint Maarten, riba 10 di òktober 2010. E sobrá di e islanan, ku ta Boneiru, Saba i St Eustatius ta munisipio di Hulanda, asina yamá islanan-BES.

Kòrsou tin un area di 444 km2 (171 mia²). Den e senso di Antias Hulandes di 2001, e populashon tabata 130.627 habitante, lokual ta nifiká un densidat di populashon di 294 habitante pa kilometer kuadrá. Den 2017 e populashon tabata aproksimadamente 160.337 habitante.