General
Island nationNew Zealand is an island country in the south-west Pacific. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland.
New Zealand is an independent nation and a member of the Commonwealth.
Size, shape and populationComparable in size (268,680 sq km) to Great Britain, Japan and Colorado in the United States, New Zealand has a diverse multicultural population of four million people, making it one of the world’s least crowded countries.
New Zealand’s indigenous Māori, a Polynesian people, make up around 15% of the population.
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