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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1455933, member: 39&quot;]Of these four, only Sint Maarten uses the ANG - the others (the &quot;BES Islands&quot; or Caribbean Netherlands) use the US dollar. Practically there is not that much difference anyway as the ANG has a fixed USD exchange rate (see below).</p><p><br /></p><p>The Kingdom of the Netherlands consists of four &quot;landen&quot; (countries): Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and &quot;Nederland&quot;. The latter refers to the (European) Netherlands plus Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten have a higher degree of autonomy, and may one day be fully independent. (Of course the latter would also mean fewer subsidies from the European NL.) Aruba has had its &quot;own&quot; currency, the Florin, since the mid-1980s, which is pegged to the USD too. Curaçao and Sint Maarten will fairly soon have their own central bank and currency (Caribbean Guilder, also with USD peg, I think). Until then, they keep using the ANG.</p><p><br /></p><p>The BES islands are &quot;bijzondere gemeenten&quot; within the Netherlands. So in a way they are cities, but they do not belong to any of the Dutch provinces. Most Dutch laws and other regulations get adapted, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Netherlands#Administration" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Netherlands#Administration" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Netherlands#Administration</a>. These three smaller places decided to not have a currency which is pegged to the US dollar, but to use the USD directly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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