Quality of life comparison
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If you lived in Niue instead of Christmas Island, you would:
Geography
see 53.9% less coastline
Christmas Island has a total of 139 km of coastline. In Niue, that number is 64 km.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.
Niue: At a glance
Niue is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 260 sq km. Niue's remoteness, as well as cultural and linguistic differences between its Polynesian inhabitants and those of the adjacent Cook Islands, has caused it to be separately administered by New Zealand. The population of the island continues to drop (from a peak of 5,200 in 1966 to an estimated 1,229 in 2013) with substantial emigration to New Zealand 2,400 km to the southwest.
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How big is Niue compared to Christmas Island? See an in-depth size comparison.