New Zealand is made up of more than 213 cultures and ethnicities that live together and give great multicultural value to the small country.

Many of these ethnic groups either originate in the country or in Europe following colonisation in the 19th Century (70.2 percent identify as European, 16.5 percent as Māori). But there are also ethnic groups from different backgrounds that have immigrated in recent decades (15.1 percent as Asian, 8.1 percent as Pacific people, and 1.2 percent as Middle-Eastern, Latin American, and African).

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