NEW ZEALAND

Name:	New Zealand
Local name (Maori):	Aotearoa
Status:	sovereign state
Surface:	268.7 ths. sq. km
Population (2003):	3 951 ths.
Capital:	Wellington (Te Whanganui ā Tara)
Official languages:	English, Maori

Current national symbols

Historical symbols:

United Tribes of Maori (1835-1840)

British New Zealand (1840-1907)

Dominion of New Zealand (since 1907)

Australasia (United team of Australia and New Zealand at the Olympic Games 1908-1912)

Ethnic and local symbols

New Zealand dependencies:

Cook Islands

Niue

Tokelau

New Zealand Antarctic Territory

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