Split across two main islands, it has roughly five sheep per person and was the first country to give women the vote.
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New Zealand
New Zealand
Oceania
ยท Australia and New Zealand
0Population
270.47Kkmยฒ of land
$42.08KGDP / person
WellingtonCapital
- ISO codes
- NZ ยท NZL
- Density
- 18 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, Mฤori, New Zealand Sign Language
- Currency
- New Zealand dollar (NZD)
- Dial code
- +64
- Internet domain
- .nz
- Time zones
- 2
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 39.7590ยฐ S, 172.7870ยฐ E
- Demonym
- New Zealander
- UN region
- Australia and New Zealand
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $206.93B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How New Zealand stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
126th
of 242 ยท 0.06% of world population
Land area
77th
of 242 ยท 0.18% of world land
GDP per person
38th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
195th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about New Zealand
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 4,917,000 people, the 126th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,561 of everyone alive.
Covers 270,467 kmยฒ, making it the 77th largest country here - about 8.9 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 18 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Wellington, at 41.30ยฐ S, 174.78ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 393,400.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 2 time zones, from Pacific/Auckland to Pacific/Chatham.
The currency is the New Zealand dollar (NZD, symbol $).
Has 3 official languages: English, Mฤori and New Zealand Sign Language.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Pacific/Auckland
--:--:--
UTC+13:00
Pacific/Chatham
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UTC+13:45
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Auckland
Auckland
36.8481ยฐ S, 174.7630ยฐ E
1.38M
2
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Wellington
Manawatu-Wanganui
41.3000ยฐ S, 174.7833ยฐ E
393.4K
3
Manukau
Auckland
37.0000ยฐ S, 174.8850ยฐ E
375.6K
4
Christchurch
Canterbury
43.5350ยฐ S, 172.6300ยฐ E
363.2K
5
Hamilton
Waikato
37.7783ยฐ S, 175.2896ยฐ E
148.2K
6
Dunedin
Otago
45.8854ยฐ S, 170.4910ยฐ E
117.7K
7
Napier
Gisborne
39.4900ยฐ S, 176.9265ยฐ E
57.8K
8
Blenheim
Marlborough
41.5135ยฐ S, 173.9550ยฐ E
30.3K
๐ Peaks
Mount Cook
3,724 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Fiordland & Milford Sound
Nature
One of the wettest inhabited places on Earth - and the rain is the point, since it wakes hundreds of cliff waterfalls.