Do you know?

• No part of the country is more than 128km (79 miles) from the sea.
• Wellington is the southernmost capital city in the world.
• Only 5% of the NZ population is humans, rest our animals.
• Both New Zealand and UK are similar in size, but NZ has a population of about 4 million as compared to 63 million in the UK.
• About one third of the country is protected national park.
• More people live in Auckland than in the whole of the South Island.
• New Zealand is the only country in the world which has two national anthems- ‘God Save the Queen’ and ‘God Defend New Zealand’.