Презентация на тему New Zealand population

of Oceania and covers 267,710 square kilometers of land,

making it the 76th largest nation in terms of land area

2,749,980 on the North Island and 931,566 on South

Island. Eighty-five percent are urban dwellers, with Auckland, the largest city, approaching one million in population.

origin, mainly from the United Kingdom, Holland, Yugoslavia, Poland,

Germany, Sweden, and Austria;

are Pacific Islanders. Along with descendants of the Chinese,

recent immigrants have come from southeast Asia. The original Maori population has been estimated at two hundred thousand.

of war and disease to just over forty thousand

was viewed as the signal of a dying culture or race. The population has risen steadily since then. The success of the campaign for Maori pride has allowed people to identify themselves without regard to skin color. This demographic and social phenomenon has been assisted by the setting up of the Waitangi Tribunal to hear the claims of iwi requesting redress of wrongs resulting from their ceding of sovereignty to Britain.

are being given access to opportunities for education and

high-profile jobs in politics and business. Many outstanding artists are Maori, from Kiri Te Kanawa to Ralph Hotere.

Cook Islanders, Samoans, Tongans, Tokelauans, Fijians, and Nieueans. Basically,

they see themselves as being in New Zealand temporarily to earn money to send their children to school, but many remain permanently. Pacific Islanders tend to be concentrated in and around Auckland and Wellington. They are ghettoized and cling to their Christian views and cultural ways — Polynesian but not identical to each other or to Maori.

large percentage of teenagers have led to ethnically based

conflict in the cities. The recent high-profile immigration of Asians, many of them wealthy, has been accompanied by some ethnic tension.