Yes, part of the kingdom, but that turns out to be irrelevant to whether it passes my test for being part of the main country. To reiterate, my test is
It’s really just for answering trivia questions. In fact, I didn’t come up with it, but rather it’s the rule used in a small trivia group I participate in.
I remember reading that in the movie “Cloverfield”, in the scene where the then-unseen monster hurls the head of the Statue of Liberty through the air and it lands in the road near the protagonists, they had to make the head roughly twice as large as it really is so that it would still loom over the crowd…
We have a Rijksministerraad, which consists of the Dutch and the island cabinet ministers. But we have a different system of government in that we don’t have local representation on that level. Saba, Bonaire and St Eustatius vote for the Dutch government, Curaçao, St Maarten and Aruba are comparable with eg New Zealand in that the head of state is our King, but they have their own government. So in that sense they’re not part of The Netherlands proper. Does that answer your question?
Went to visit Jamestown and the ranger said people say where is the rock? Confusing it with Plymouth rock. I thought Pocahontas was at Plymouth but she was at Jamestown