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🔆Cook Islands
📍Political Status:
✅A self-governing nation in free association with New Zealand. It was formerly a dependent New Zealand colony from 1901 to 1965.
✅Citizens of the Cook Islands are also citizens of New Zealand.
✅Administrative Centre: Avarua, located on the island of Rarotonga.
✅Geography: Situated in Polynesia, Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean.
Located northeast of New Zealand, between American Samoa and French Polynesia.
✅It comprises 15 islands, formed by volcanic activity, with a total land area of approximately 236.7 sq km.