New Zealand characteristics - International Connections and Productivity: Making Globalisation Work for New Zealand — The Treasury - New Zealand. Info Economic geography 152nd Rank of Auckland in the list of world's largest cities by population (including surrounding urban areas) Source: City Mayors (2007) New Zealand can be characterised as having a relatively small population (compared with other developed economies) located some distance from the world's economic weight of Europe and North America, though closer to the emerging economic weight in Asia.
Small size means a relatively lower level of domestic competition,[15] making foreign competition comparatively more important to creating a competitive domestic business environment. Small size also makes it harder to achieve economies of scale,[16] and allows fewer agglomeration benefits.[17] Auckland is New Zealand's largest city, but is still relatively small by world standards. 10.1% Reduction in New Zealand's GDP per person that can be ‘explained' by economic geography Source: OECD (2008a) Natural resources Historical and cultural context Notes Page top. Characteristics. New Zealand has been isolated from other land masses for so long a period that a vegetation has developed which has definite characteristics of great interest.
Among these may be noted the large number of endemic species (those found only in New Zealand); the great number of species within certain genera (as species of Olearia); the absence or poor development of genera which flourish in Australia (Acacia); the number of plants with distinctive juvenile and adult forms (Pseudopanax crassifolium); the presence of some plants with affinities to plants in South America, South Africa, and Malaya (Hebe); the large number of hybrids within the genus (Nothofagus)and others; the divaricating growth forms of many coastal plants, as well as those from other habitats, and the cushion-like habit of alpine plants (Raoulia); and the large number of plants which have inconspicuous flowers, small, lacking in colour, and often unisexual (Coprosma). New Zealand. New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
The country geographically comprises two main landmasses – that of the North Island, or Te Ika-a-Māui, and the South Island, or Te Waipounamu – and numerous smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres (900 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. During its long isolation, New Zealand developed a distinctive biodiversity of animal, fungal and plant life. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions. Polynesians settled New Zealand in 1250–1300 CE and developed a distinctive Māori culture. Etymology Detail from a 1657 map showing the western coastline of "Nova Zeelandia" History Art.
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