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Curacao qualifies for World Cup: Caribbean island with 156,000 as populated as Ang Mo Kio
The tiny island nation of Curacao in the Caribbean has made history by becoming the smallest-ever country to qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
They held on for a 0-0 draw against Jamaica in the morning of Nov. 19 (Singapore time), which was enough to send them through after recording a massive 7-0 victory over Bermuda in the Concacaf qualifying group.
Curacao, located near Venezuela, only became an independent country in 2010, after the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved in 2006.
It then became an independent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
They elect their own prime minister, but their head of state is the monarch of the Netherlands, similar to Canada or Australia, which has the United Kingdom's King Charles as their head of state.
The country is just 444 sq km by land area, with a population of around 156,000.
By contrast, Singapore is around 735.7 sq km, and the population of just Ang Mo Kio alone was estimated at 158,000 in mid-2025.
Curacao's manager is Dick Advocaat, a famed Dutch manager who previously managed club teams Rangers, Sunderland and PSV Eindhoven, as well as national sides Belgium and South Korea.
He will be the oldest manager at the World Cup in the U.S., Canada and Mexico at 78.
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