Niue flag information

Flag description: yellow with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant; the flag of the UK bears five yellow five-pointed stars - a large star on a blue disk in the center and a smaller star on each arm of the bold red cross. .

Flags

American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Federated States of, Nauru, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna

Related region

Oceania

Additional information about Niue

Official country name:

Short name: Niue
Local names (long and short forms): /
Former name: Savage Island
Abbreviation:
Notes: pronounciation falls between nyu-way and new-way, but not like new-wee

Nationality noun / adjective: Niuean(s) / Niuean

Languages spoken: Niuean, a Polynesian language closely related to Tongan and Samoan; English. .

Capital: Alofi (GMT -9.9, summertime: )

Government type: self-governing parliamentary democracy

Population: 1444 ranked 235, (data 2008)

Geography: one of world's largest coral islands. The lowest point is Pacific Ocean 0 m and the highest point is unnamed location near Mutalau settlement 68 m. .

Coastline: Coastline 64 km - . .

Land borders: Niue has a total of 0 km landborders, bordering to . . .

Administrative divisions: none; note - there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are 14 villages at the second order

Dependent areas:

Independence: on 19 October 1974, Niue became a self-governing parliamentary government in free association with New Zealand