That would be Chile in South America which is about 9,700 km from New Zealand. This is excluding the Philippines which no longer has Spanish as an official language but is only about 7,700 km from New Zealand.
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Equatorial Guinea is the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa.
Our neighbours in the Lucky Country, Australia.
The closest country is Fiji, which is just a small island. New Zealand is surrounded by a large number of small islands. The country closest to New Zealand that is a bigger more industrial country would be Australia.
New Caledonia is the closest French island to NZ in the Pacific.