New Zealand covers an area of about 270,000 square kilometers (ranking 75th in the world). The exclusive economic zone covers an area of1.2000 square kilometers, the water area is 2. 1%, the land length is1.6000 kilometers, the widest point from east to west is 450 kilometers, and the coastline is 6900 kilometers.

New Zealand consists of North Island, South Island, Stewart Island and some small islands nearby. New Zealand is known as "green". The territory is mountainous, with mountains and hills accounting for more than 75% of the total area. The two main islands (South Island and North Island) cover an area of about 266,200 kilometers? .

forest resources

New Zealand is rich in forest resources, with a forest area of 865.438+10,000 hectares, accounting for 30% of the country's land area, including 6.3 million hectares of natural forests and 0/0.8 million hectares of artificial forests. The main products are logs, logs, wood pulp, paper and cardboard. Fish is abundant.

Although after 65,438+0,000 years of human logging, 25% of New Zealand's land is still densely forested, and the national forest coverage rate reaches 29%, most of which are located in plateau areas. Most of these areas belong to national parks and forest parks, and development is prohibited. New Zealand's forests are characterized by mild evergreen rainforests, which contain huge tree ferns, vines and epiphytes ―― it looks like an ordinary jungle.