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New Zealand Vital Statistics
Population:
- 4,000,000
Humans
- 50,400,000 Sheep
Land Area:
- North Island:
115,000 sq km
- South Island:
151,000 sq km
- Stewart Island:
1700 sq km
- Other: 1300 sq
km
- Total: 269,000
sq km
Major Cities:
- Wellington: pop.
328,000
- Auckland: pop.
1,002,000
- ChristChurch
Official Languages:
English and Maori
Race/Ethnicity: 88%
European (Pakeha), 12% Maori and Polynesian
Date of first Maori
settlement: Unknown, possibly between 950 and 1350
Date discovered by
Europeans (Dutch explorer Abel Tasmin): 1642
Date of first British
settlement:
Date of establishment
of NZ citizenship: XXXXX, 194?
National Bird: Kiwi
Measurement System:
Metric
Currency: NZ Dollar
Dates are expressed
in the format DD/MM/YY, so that March 15, 1999 would be written
as 15/3/99, or spoken as, "The fifteenth of the third."
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