New Zealand
New Zealand is a country in Australia and New Zealand, with its capital at Wellington, and is home to roughly 5.3M people.
Its official languages are English, Māori, New Zealand Sign Language; the currency in circulation is New Zealand dollar ($); people from here are called New Zealander.
- »New Zealand was among the last large landmasses settled by humans.
- »It was the first self-governing country to give women the vote, in 1893.
- »There are no native land snakes, and its only native land mammals are bats.
New Zealand shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Tonga (2,857 km), Fiji (2,990 km) and Vanuatu (3,216 km), measured centre to centre.
Wellington is the southernmost capital of a sovereign state and one of the windiest cities in the world, sitting in a gap that funnels the Cook Strait winds.
265,097 km² (102,354 sq mi), 74th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Gabon.
Population 5,290,000, 122nd of 198 on file. That averages 20 per km² (52 per sq mi).
The Southern Cross in red with white borders, beside the Union Jack. A 2016 referendum on replacing it with a silver fern design was defeated.
Close enough to Australia's flag to cost you a guess.
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