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a Dutch trading company founded in 1621 to develop Dutch trading interests in competition with Spain and Portugal and their colonies in western India, South America, and West Africa. It was dissolved in 1794.
荷兰西印度公司（１６２１年成立的贸易公司，旨在与西班牙、葡萄牙及其在印度西部、南美洲和西非的殖民地竞争，发展荷兰的贸易利益，１７９４年解散）。