There are 8 sheep to every New Zealander!

The longest place name still in use, and the name of a hill in NZ is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupo-kaiwhenuakitanatahu

No matter where you are in New Zealand, you're never more than one hundred miles from the ocean.

New Zealand is the first country to begin each new day.

New Zealand has no snakes or dangerous wild animals.

George Bernard Shaw visited New Zealand in 1934 and when asked his impression of the place, after a pause he answered:  "Altogether too many sheep"

Due to the moderating effect of the ocean, summer and winter temperatures in most NZ locations differ by less than 10 ^oC.

NZ invented bungee jumping.

If you dug a hole directly through the center of the earth starting in New Zealand, you would end up in Spain.

The kiwi is the only known bird to have external nostrils at the end of its bill and one of the few to have a highly developed sense of smell. A kiwi literally sniffs out its food.

The kiwi bird lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. It's been around for more than 70 million years.

Another native bird of New Zealand (the Moa) was one of the largest birds in history - standing up to 3.6m (12 foot) tall and weighing 300kg. Unfortunately they were hunted to extinction by the Maoris by the end of the 1500s.

New Zealand is home to the largest flightless parrot (kakapo), oldest reptile (tuatara), biggest earthworms, smallest bats, heaviest insect (a weta), some of the oldest trees and many rarest species birds, insects, and plants, in the world.

Curious Kea: The kea bird, native to New Zealand, likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.

Auckland has three harbors, two mountain ranges, 48 volcanic cones and more than 50 islands.

Kiwifruit was known as the Chinese Gooseberry until 1959, when New Zealanders gave it the name “Kiwifruit,” after their beloved national symbol, the fuzzy, brown Kiwi bird.

As far as the geography of New Zealand is concerned, 30 percent comprises of forests.

Clever Kiwis: A New Zealander invented the tear-back velcro strip, the pop-lid on a self-sealing paint tin, the child-proof pill bottle and the crinkle in hair-pins so that they don't fall out.

Sir Edmund Hillary - the first man to reach the peak of Mount Everest was a New Zealander (born in Auckland) and his face is on the New Zealand $5 bill.

No capital city in the world is further south than Wellington. It is called the windy city. It isn't considered to be a truly windy day in Wellington if you don't have to hold on to the ground.  :)

More fresh water flows up from cracks in the limestone at Waikoropupu, near Takaka, than from any other freshwater spring in the world - more than 2100 million litres every 24 hours.  

Lake Taupo (one of New Zealand’s most popular tourist destinations) was the source of the largest known eruption in the world in the last 70 thousand years. It had a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 8. It released over 530 cubit kilometers of magma.

New Zealand has more punk rock bands per head of population than any other country.   

New Zealand is part of 'The Pacific Rim of Fire'. Mount Ruapehu, situated in central North Island, is the most active volcano of the country. 

New Zealand, before European arrival, had no predatory animals. Thus, it was like a heaven for birds, many of them flightless