New Zealand

Key Facts About New Zealand

• •New Zealand was the first self-governing country to grant women the right to vote in 1893.
• •The Māori people arrived in New Zealand about 700 years ago from Polynesia.
• •New Zealand's dramatic landscapes were used as the setting for The Lord of the Rings films.
• •It is home to the kiwi bird, a flightless nocturnal bird found nowhere else.
• •New Zealand sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire with about 3,000 earthquakes per year.

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