The world's smallest self-governing nation, with wifi everywhere
A single raised coral island in the South Pacific with around 1,600 residents — fewer people live on Niue than left for New Zealand decades ago — yet it was one of the first countries on Earth with free nationwide wifi, and its surrounding waters are some of the clearest on the planet.
Settled by Polynesian voyagers around a thousand years ago, Niue became a British protectorate in 1900, administered by New Zealand from 1901, and gained self-governance in free association with New Zealand in 1974. Decades of emigration to New Zealand for work mean there are now roughly ten times more Niuean people living in New Zealand than on Niue itself.