Interesting Facts About New Zealand
- New Zealand is one of the world’s least populated countries.
- New Zealanders love their cars! 2.5 million cars for 4 million people (including the kids) makes New Zealand’s car ownership rate one of the highest in the world.
- In 1893, New Zealand became the first country to give women the right to vote.
- Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest in 1953, was a New Zealander.
- Baron Ernest Rutherford, the first person in the world to split the atom in 1919, was also a New Zealander.
- New Zealand has won more Olympic gold medals per capita, than any other country.
- New Zealand is thehome to the world’s only flightless parrot, the Kakapo.
- There are no snakes in New Zealand.
- There aren't nuclear power stations in New Zealand.
- The world’s first commercial bungee jump was a 43 metre leap off the Kawarau Bridge in Queenstown in 1988.
- The longest place name in the world is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a hill in Hawkes Bay.
- New Zealand is home to the world’s smallest dolphin species.
- New Zealand has three official languages: English, Māori and New Zealand Sign Language.
- There is a giant carnivorous snail living in the South Island
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