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With public transport declining heavily during the second half of the 20th century (a trend mirrored in most Western countries, such as the US), [170] and increased spending on roads and cars, New Zealand (and specifically Auckland) now has the second-highest vehicle ownership rate in the world, with around 578 vehicles per 1000 people. [171]
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
For instance, in 2016, Auckland was ranked the world's third most liveable city and Wellington the twelfth by the Mercer Quality of Living Survey. [ 313 ] The median age of the New Zealand population at the 2018 census was 37.4 years, [ 314 ] with life expectancy in 2017–2019 being 80.0 years for males and 83.5 years for females. [ 315 ]
New Zealand has been excluded from maps at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. in the United States, in IKEA stores, on the map of the board games Pandemic [4] and Risk, on the map of the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit in which Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key participated, at a world map seal at the United Nations ...
Population density map for Auckland in the 2023 census. The eponymous city (urban area) of Auckland has a population of 1,531,400 as of June 2024, [2] making up 85.2% of the region's population. Other urban areas in the Auckland region include: Hibiscus Coast (67,800) Pukekohe (28,000) Waiuku (9,930) Waiheke West (8,020) Beachlands-Pine Harbour ...
See List of extinct countries, empires, etc. and Former countries in Europe after 1815 for articles about countries that are no longer in existence. See List of countries for other articles and lists on countries. Wikimedia Commons includes the Wikimedia Atlas of the World. Entries available in the atlas. General pages
Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.
The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. A developed country, it was the first to introduce a minimum wage, and the first to give women the right to vote.