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THE FACTS
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LOCATION: North America & The Caribbean
GOVERNMENT:   Parliamentary
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%.
MAJOR ETHNIC GROUPS: Mixed black 85%, other 15% (includes Carib Amerindian, white, East Asian)

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