General Aspects

New Zealand's population is about 4 million. The Zealanders resident are  European or Polynesian the most numerous, almost three quarters of the population live in the North Island. Eighty-five percent live in cities and towns. The largest cities are New Zealand Auckland (1 million inhabitants), Wellington (335,000 inhabitants) and Christchurch (330,000 inhabitants).

"Aotearoa (often translated as "land of the long white cloud") is the current Māori name for New Zealand, and is also used in New Zealand English. It is unknown whether Māori had a name for the whole country before the arrival of Europeans, with Aotearoa originally referring to just the North Island. Abel Tasman sighted New Zealand in 1642 and called it Staten Landt, supposing it was connected to a landmass of the same name at the southern tip of South America. In 1645 Dutch cartographers renamed the land Nova Zeelandia after theDutch province of Zeeland. British explorer James Cook subsequently anglicised the name to New Zealand.

Māori had several traditional names for the two main islands, including Te Ika-a-Māui (the fish of Māui) for the North Island and Te Wai Pounamu (the waters of greenstone) or Te Waka o Aoraki (the canoe of Aoraki) for the South Island. Early European maps labelled the islands North (North Island), Middle (South Island) and South (Stewart Island / Rakiura)." (wikipedia)

The flag of New Zealand shows in red the four main stars of the constellation of the Southern Cross with a dark blue background and the "Union Jack", the Union Jack in the upper left corner.
The coat of arms is a shield topped with a crown and flanked by a Maori chief and a European woman

English is the common language for business and everyday use. The Maori is the second official language of New Zealand.