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Where is Cook Island?

Where is Cook Island?


Cook Islands The Cook Islands are located in the southern Antarctic Ocean, east of Australia, the Coral Sea, the New Caledonia Islands, northeast of New Zealand, the south-west of the Papeete Islands, French Polynesia, the South-East of Apia Island, New. The islands are located about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand. These islands are volcanic islands of origin except Maniwa.



Information about them


These islands were named Cook Islands by James Cook, the explorer of the East Coast of Australia and New Zealand. Its capital is Avarua, and at the same time its largest city. There are two official languages: Maori and English. It is estimated at about two hundred and thirty-seven square kilometers, and the population is estimated at about twenty-one thousand and four hundred people based on the statistics of the year 2000 and five years. Finally, the New Zealand dollar is the official currency traded alongside the dollar of the Cook Islands. The vast majority of the islanders belong to the Cook Islands Church, accounting for about 60 percent of the total population. Roman Catholics account for about 17 percent of the population, while the rest of the population is divided among the Seventh Day Adventist, , Ladinists, Protestants, and others. The first two of August is a national holiday called the Constitution Day


Its political and economic status


The Cook Islands are self-governing; they form a free union with New Zealand, and the Department of Internal Affairs is therefore the responsibility of the island Government, while defense and foreign relations are New Zealand's responsibility to cooperate with the island's internal Government.

The island is governed by a parliamentary system consisting of two chambers: the Legislative Assembly, which has 25 members, including one member who represents residents outside the island, and the duration of this council is five years. The second chamber is the House of Lords, and includes traditional island leaders. As for the economy, it is like many economies in the rest of the islands and islands of the southern part of the Pacific Ocean, where economic development in the Cook Islands is somewhat slow because of its isolation from world markets and a shortage of natural resources, Which destroys everything in its way, leading to real economic calamities in these regions of the world
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