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Last Minute Tips Before you Travel to Niue
- Time Zone: GMT/UTC +11
- Electricity: 240V 50Hz(bring an adapter/transformer for your hair drier, laptop, cellullar phone etc.)
- Currency: NZ Dollar (NZ$)
- Country Dialing Code:683
Niue
Location
Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Tonga
Capital
Alofi
Population
2,166 (July 2006 est.)
Regions
none; note - there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are 14 villages at the second order
Climate
tropical; modified by southeast trade winds
Ethnic groups
Niuen 78.2%, Pacific islander 10.2%, European 4.5%, mixed 3.9%, Asian 0.2%, unspecified 3% (2001 census)
Religions
Ekalesia Niue (Niuean Church - a Protestant church closely related to the London Missionary Society) 61.1%, Latter-Day Saints 8.8%, Roman Catholic 7.2%, Jehovah's Witnesses 2.4%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1.4%, other 8.4%, unspecified 8.7%, none 1.9% (2001 census)
Languages
Niuean, a Polynesian language closely related to Tongan and Samoan; English
Government type
self-governing parliamentary democracy
Background
Niue's remoteness, as well as cultural and linguistic differences between its Polynesian inhabitants and those of the rest of the Cook Islands, have caused it to be separately administered. The population of the island continues to drop (from a peak of 5,200 in 1966 to about 2,166 in 2006), with substantial emigration to New Zealand, 2,400 km to the southwest.
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