Cook Islands
- a group of fifteen islands in the SW Pacific Ocean between Tonga and French Polynesia, which have the status of a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand; pop.11,900 (est. 2009); languages, English (official), Rarotongan (a Polynesian language); capital, Avarua, on Rarotonga.库克群岛（太平洋西南部汤加与法属波利尼西亚之间15个岛屿组成的群岛, 是与新西兰有自由联盟关系的自治区域, 2009年估计人口11,900, 通用语有官方语言英语和波利尼西亚的拉罗汤加语; 首都是拉罗汤加的阿瓦鲁阿）。
词源
named after Captain J. Cook （see Cook1）, who visited them in 1773.