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Cook Islands (Cook Islands Māori: Kūki 'Āirani),
is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand. It comprises 15 small islands whose total land area is 240 square kilometres (92.7 sq mi). The Cook Islands' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), however, covers 1,800,000 square kilometres (690,000 sq mi) of ocean.
The Cook Islands' defence and foreign affairs are the responsibility of New Zealand, which is exercised in consultation with the Cook Islands.
British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 and named the islands the Hervey Islands; the name "Cook Islands", in honour of Cook,
são ilhas em democracia autonoma na Oceania, em livre associação à Nova Zelândia, situado na Polinésia . Compreende dois grupos de ilhas dispersas por uma vasta extensão de oceano, as Ilhas Cook Setentrionais e as Ilhas Cook Meridionais, e ainda o Recife Beveridge. Os seus vizinhos mais próximos são Kiribati a norte, a Polinésia Francesa a leste e Tonga, a Samoa Americana e as possessões neo-zelandesas de Niue e de Tokelau, a oeste. Capital: Avarua.
As ilhas, anteriormente exploradas e povoadas por polinésios e espanhóis, receberam seu nome do navegante britânico James Cook que, em 1770, traçou o primeiro mapa do arquipélago