Official Name: New Zealand (English); Aotearoa (Maori)
Form of Government: constitutional monarchy with one legislative house (House of Representatives [120])
President: Dame Patsy Reddy
Prime Minister: Jacinda Ardern
GDP: 206.9 billion USD (2019)
Capital: Wellington
Population: 4.917 million (2019)
Official Languages: English
Currency: New Zealand dollar
Timezone: GMT+12
Area:268,021 km²
Dialing Code: +64
Major Mountain Ranges: Mount Taranaki,Aoraki,Mitre Peak,Mount Ngauruhoe,The Remarkables
Major Rivers: Rhine,Meuse,waal,ljssel,Scheldt
Continent: Oceania
Border Countries: New Zealand shares maritime borders with American Samoa (United States), Australia, Fiji, French Polynesia (France), Kiribati, Samoa, and Tonga. The islands of NZ lie along the collision lines of the Pacific and the Australian tectonic plates.