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Wellington [b] is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand, [c] and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. [16]
Wellington has been the capital of New Zealand since 1865. New Zealand's first capital city was Old Russell in 1840–41. Auckland was the second capital from 1841 until 1865, when Parliament was permanently moved to Wellington after an argument that persisted for a decade.
New Zealand is a predominantly urban country, with 84.3% of the population living in urban areas, and 51.0% of the population living in the seven cities with populations exceeding 100,000. [309] Auckland, with over 1.4 million residents, is by far the largest city. [309] New Zealand cities generally rank highly on international livability measures.
She comes from New Zealand’s northernmost settlement, Te Hāpua, directly above Auckland. It’s the same village that the most famous hīkoi started from, back in 1975, protesting over land rights.
The word city took on two meanings in New Zealand after the local government reforms of 1989. Before the reforms, a borough that had a population of 20,000 or more could be proclaimed a city. [ 1 ] The boundaries of councils tended to follow the edge of the built-up area, so there was little difference between the urban area and the local ...
New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. A developed country, it was the first to introduce a minimum wage, and the first to give women the right to vote. It ranks very highly in international measures of quality of life, human rights, and it has one of the lowest levels of perceived corruption in the world.
Conservationists have discovered two kiwi chicks in Wellington, the first wild births recorded for the bird in the New Zealand capital in over 150 years. The two new chicks come just a year after ...
Between 1842 and 1865, Auckland was the capital city of New Zealand. [138] Parliament met in what is now Old Government House on the University of Auckland's City campus. The capital was moved to the more centrally located Wellington in 1865. [citation needed]