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Polygamy in Niue

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Niue does not recognizepolygamous marriages bycivil law nor customary law.

The island previously had polygamy, with some thinking its removal was due to embracingChristianity^[1]

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Sovereign states	Australia Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Indonesia Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Timor-Leste Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
Associated states of New Zealand	Cook Islands Niue
Dependencies and other territories	American Samoa Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Easter Island French Polynesia Guam Hawaii New Caledonia Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Pitcairn Islands Tokelau Wallis and Futuna

Performed
legally

Nationwide	Afghanistan Algeria Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cameroon Chad CAR Comoros Congo Djibouti Egypt Gabon The Gambia India Polygyny Polyandry Indonesia Iran Kenya Kuwait Libya Maldives Mauritania Morocco Myanmar Oman Pakistan Qatar Saudi Arabia Senegal Singapore Somalia Sudan South Sudan Tanzania Togo Uganda UAE Yemen Zambia
Statewide	Iraq¹ Nigeria² Palestine Syria¹

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performed
legally abroad

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