CK
Cook Islands
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Emergency number
The association has no number for this country from an official publisher. Ask locally before you need it — a number published here without a source could be the wrong one.
Official addresses
The association has no official government address for this country yet. It will be added when one can be taken from a publisher that permits it.
- Form of government
- parliamentary democracy
- Capital
- Avarua
- Head of state
- King CHARLES III (since 8 September 2022); represented by Sir Tom J. MARSTERS (since 9 August 2013); New Zealand High Commissioner Catherine GRAHAM (since 8 September 2024)
- Head of government
- Prime Minister Mark BROWN (since 1 October 2020)
- Cabinet
- Cabinet chosen by the prime minister
- Highest court
- Court of Appeal (consists of the chief justice and 3 judges of the High Court); High Court (consists of the chief justice and at least 4 judges and organized into civil, criminal, and land divisions)
- Independence
- 4 August 1965 (Cook Islands became self-governing state in free association with New Zealand)
- National day
- Constitution Day, the first Monday in August (1965)
This directory was compiled on 12 October 2026.
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