Yes
No. New Zealand is an independent nation. It's also not anywhere near the Philippines.
there are no best parts, as long as you stay out of auckland, my personal favorite places are the kangiroa forest and bay of islands
No, it is part of Polynesia.
New Zealand has always been a separate group of islands lying to the SE of Australia. But several hundred metres down, there is a large proto continent called by the geologists Zealandia, but it has...
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