A few random NZ facts

• Largest City: Auckland - 1.25 million and growing
• Capital: Wellington - the southern most capital in the world
• Favourite sport: Rugby - our national team, The All Blacks, are the 'winningest' rugby team in the world having won over 73% of their test matches over the years
• there are nine sheep to every human in New Zealand
• there are 9 million beef and dairy cattle
• Tuatara is New Zealand’s oldest native reptile. It has lived for about 200 million years. Today this creature of the night still survives on offshore islands
• Bungee jumping was invented in New Zealand.
• Dunedin city of New Zealand boast of housing the country’s oldest university, first newspaper and first botanical gardens.
• New Zealand has won the most Olympic gold medals, per capita, amongst all the participant countries.
• 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.
• New Zealand, before European arrival, had no predatory animals. Thus, it was like a heaven for birds, many of them flightless.
• New Zealand’s geography includes spectacular landscapes incorporating the vast mountain chain of the Southern Alps (larger than the French, Austrian and Swiss Alps combined), the volcano region of the North Island, fiords, glaciers, lakes, rainforests and extensive grassy plains.
• The Keep New Zealand Beautiful Society recognises efforts made by local bodies for the condition of there public toilets and offer awards each year. Each town and area is competing with one another to have the best public toilets.

 *side not here cause I think this is just awesome**
One of the most noteable washrooms in New Zealand are the KawaKawa Public Toilets in the Bay of Islands. Designed by Frederick Hundertwasser the toilets are a work are just cool!!.