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Arubans in the Netherlands

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Arubans in the Netherlands
Arubanen in Nederland
Total population
23,800 (2013)
Languages
Dutch, Papiamento
Religion
Christianity

Arubans in the Netherlands (Dutch: Arubanen in Nederland) are migrants from Aruba to the Netherlands and their descendants. Aruba was part of the former Netherlands Antilles until 1986 when the country seceded remaining a constituent country of Kingdom of the Netherlands. As of 2014, figures from Statistics Netherlands showed 142,953 people of Dutch Antillean origin in the Netherlands, of which 23,800 are Aruban.[1] The largest Aruban communities in the Netherlands can be found in Amsterdam, Almere, Haarlem, The Hague, Rotterdam, Alkmaar and Amersfoort.

Notable people

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References

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  1. ^ "CBS Statline". opendata.cbs.nl.