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Niue
| Location |
S Pacific Ocean, E of Tonga |
| Latitude and longitude |
19 02 S, 169 52 W |
| Sovereignty |
New Zealand |
| Population |
1,625 |
| Census notes |
September 2006 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
259 |
| Capital |
Alofi |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| Niue
Constitution Act 1974 (New Zealand), from the Pacific Islands
Legal Information Institute at the University of the South Pacific
School of Law |
| Niue
Constitution Act 1974 (New Zealand) (PDF 928K), from the Niue
Information Page |
Other legal documents online
|
| Niue
Law, a collection of statutes, laws, judicial decisions and
other materials from the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute at
the University of the South Pacific School of Law |
| Niue
Domestic Fishing Regulations (1996) (PDF) |
Halavaka
ke he Monuina Arrangement between Niue and New Zealand, for a
Programme of Strengthened Cooperation 2004-2009 (PDF) (the arrangement
begins on the sixteenth page of this document, as an annex) |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and
Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C. |
| Fishery
Country Profile--Niue, from the Food and Agriculture
Organization |
| Niue,
from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
| Niue,
from Radio Australia’s Charting the Pacific |
| Niue,
from Radio Australia’s Time to Talk |
| Niue
Information Page, an excellent unofficial collection of legal materials and articles on
Niue and its relationship with New Zealand |
| Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Pacific
Island Populations 2011 (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet 80K) |
| Statistics
Niue, from the Government of Niue |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
Selected articles on law and political status
|
| The
New Zealand Model of Free Association: What Does it Mean for New Zealand,
by Alison Quentin-Baxter, in volume 39 of the Victoria University
of Wellington Law Review (New Zealand), at page 607 (2008) (PDF 149K) |
| The Strange Death of the Realm of New Zealand: The Implications of a New Zealand Republic for the Cook Islands and
Niue, by Andrew Townend (PDF 468K), from the Cook Islands
Information Page (unofficial) |
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