The Cook Islands is a self-governing island country in free association with New Zealand since 4th August 1965. Comprising of 15 islands in the South Pacific Ocean with Rarotonga being the capital of the Cook Islands with a population of 17,500 people.  

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English is the business language, and Cook Islands Maori is the indigenous language. Tourism, fishing, and the financial services industries are the largest revenue earning sectors. There is also a growing untapped trove of seabed minerals which contains an estimated twenty-five percent of the world’s supply of cobalt. The Cook Islands dollar is on a fixed exchange rate to the New Zealand dollar (CI$1.00=NZ$1.00). 

Cook Islands boasts the largest multi-use marine park in the world. Marae Moana spans a total ocean area of nearly 2 million square kilometres.