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| LOCATION: |
North America & The Caribbean |
| GOVERNMENT: |
Parlimentary |
| OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: |
Papiamento 65.4% (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect), English 15.9% (widely spoken), Dutch 7.3% (official), Spanish 6.1%, Creole 1.6%, other 1.9%, unspecified 1.8%. |
| MAJOR RELIGION(S): |
Roman Catholic 72%, Pentecostal 4.9%, Protestant 3.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 3.1%, Methodist 2.9%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.7%, other Christian 4.2%, Jewish 1.3%, other or unspecified 1.2%, none 5.2%. |
| MAJOR ETHNIC GROUPS: |
Mixed black 85%, other 15% (includes Carib Amerindian, white, East Asian). |
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