The Cook Islands is a parliamentary majority rules system in the South Pacific Ocean in unhindered companionship with New Zealand. It contains 15 humble islands whose aggregate area range is 240 square kilometres (92.7 sq mi). The Cook Islands' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), be that as it may, blankets 1,800,000 square kilometres (690,000 sq mi) of ocean.
The Cook Islands' defence and unfamiliar issues are the avocation of New Zealand, in counsel with the Cook Islands. As of late, the Cook Islands have embraced an in an ever widening margin free strange arrangement. Admitting that Cook Islanders are natives of New Zealand, they have the status of Cook Islands nationals, which is not given to other New Zealand residents.
The Cook Islands' prevailing people centres are on the island of Rarotonga (14,153 in 2006), where there is a global hangar. There is a much greater residents of Cook Islanders in New Zealand, especially the North Island. In the 2006 enumeration, 58,008 self-recognized as being of ethnic Cook Islands Māori descent.
With around 100,000 guests going to the islands in the 2010–11 monetary year, tourism is the nation's essential industry, and the heading component of the economy, far in advance of seaward keeping money, pearls, and marine and soil grown foods sends out.
