New Zealand's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) covers at least , which is approximately 15 times the land area of the country. Sources vary significantly on the size of New Zealand's EEZ; for example, a recent government publication gave the area as roughly 4,300,000 km<sup>2</sup>. These figures are for the EEZ of New Zealand , and do not include the EEZs of other associated states and territories in the Realm of New Zealand (the Cook Islands, Niue, the Ross Dependency, and Tokelau).