Aruba

Did you know?

• 🏝A small but incredibly colorful island in the Caribbean Sea, officially a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
• 🏳️Its flag, adopted in 1976, is highly symbolic: the blue field stands for the sky and sea, two yellow stripes reflect freedom and the sun, the four-pointed red star represents the island itself with points for the cardinal directions, and the white border symbolizes peace and the famous white sandy beaches.
• 🗣️Aruba is multilingual: Dutch and Papiamento are official, while Papiamento, Spanish, English and Dutch are its four main languages.
• 🧭Aruba lies south of the main hurricane belt and has a warm, semi-arid climate shaped by trade winds.
• 🏝️Venezuela's neighbor — just 25–30 km off the South American coast. On a clear day from the top of Hooiberg Hill (165 m), you can see Venezuela with the naked eye.