Auckland City Totally Explained

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Territorial Authority
Auckland City
Country:	New Zealand
Auckland City: Orange areas area show the city's area within the greater Auckland conurbation's urban area (grey). The city centre is ringed. Note that the city also encompasses islands of the inner (upper right) and outer Hauraki Gulf.


Name:	Auckland City Council
Mayor:	John Banks
Population:	404,658 (2006 census)
Extent:	Auckland isthmus, W to Avondale; E to Tamaki River; N to Waitemata Harbour; S to Otahuhu and Manukau Harbour includes all Hauraki Gulf islands
Area:	637 km² (246 sq mi)
Website:	http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz
Regional Council
Name:	Auckland Regional Council
Website:	http://www.arc.govt.nz

ť This article is about the City of Auckland, a part of the whole metropolitan area of Auckland.

Auckland City (informally Central Auckland) is the city and local authority covering the Auckland isthmus and most of the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, in the North Island of New Zealand. Auckland City is the most populous city in the country, with a population of 404,658 (2006 census). It lies in the Auckland Region, and the Auckland Regional Council is also based in Auckland City.
Auckland City is, together with its neighbouring cities, part of the Greater Auckland area. As the term 'Auckland' may refer to the local authority alone, to the whole metropolitan area, or even to the broader region, this may lead to ambiguity, since people from other parts of New Zealand or from overseas often don't draw any distinction.

Structure

Governance In November 1989, central government restructured local authorities throughout New Zealand. After substantial protests and legal challenges, Auckland City was merged with eight smaller local authorities to form a new Auckland City Council. The new city had double the population of the old and the amalgamation set the present-day boundaries of the city. However, amalgamation, forced onto local authorities often against their will, has been criticised to have led to less democracy and higher rates for the same services.

Population Auckland's population, as the largest and most cosmopolitan city of New Zealand, is made up of 185 ethnic groups, with Europeans (49.8%), Asians (22.4%), Pacific Islanders (12%) and Maori (7.2%) making up the largest groups (2006 data).

Geography

The mainland part of Auckland City lies on an isthmus. The Waitemata Harbour, which opens to the Hauraki Gulf, separates the isthmus from North Shore City and north. The Manukau Harbour, which opens to the Tasman Sea, separates the isthmus from Manukau City and the south.
The islands of the inner gulf include Rangitoto, Motutapu, Browns Island, Motuihe, Rakino, Ponui and Waiheke, while the outer gulf islands include Little Barrier, Great Barrier and the Mokohinau Islands. A significant portion of Auckland's CBD and of the Auckland waterfront is built on land reclaimed over the last 100 years. Substantial development of such under-utilised areas to the west of the CBD has been projected, with large businesses beginning to relocate there as of 2006.

Lists

Suburbs

These lists of suburbs are arranged electorally, by the Wards, starting from the west:
Avondale-Roskill
Avondale, Blockhouse Bay, Lynfield, New Windsor, Hillsborough, Three Kings, Waikowhai, Mount Roskill, Lynfield, Sandringham, Wesley, Waterview Eden-Albert
Balmoral, Morningside, Mount Albert, Mount Eden, Owairaka, Kingsland, Sandringham, Waterview Western Bays
Grey Lynn, Newton, Western Springs, Point Chevalier, Westmere, Ponsonby, Herne Bay, Freemans Bay, Saint Marys Bay. Hobson
Inner City ward
Auckland CBD, Epsom, Greenlane, Newmarket, One Tree Hill, Parnell, Remuera, Mechanics Bay, Grafton, Newton. Eastern Bays
Mission Bay, Kohimarama, Saint Heliers, Orakei, Glendowie, Meadowbank, Saint Johns Tamaki - Maungakiekie
Glen Innes, Point England, Tamaki, Panmure, Mount Wellington, Ellerslie. Otahuhu, Westfield, Southdown, Penrose, Oranga, Te Papapa, Onehunga, Royal Oak For the suburbs of the other cities within the Auckland urban area, see North Shore, Manukau, Waitakere and Papakura.

Education

Auckland City has a large number of secondary schools:

Marist College, Auckland

McAuley Girls High School

Michael Park School

Mount Roskill Grammar School

Mount Albert Grammar School

Selwyn College, Auckland

St Cuthbert's College

St Mary's College, Auckland

St Paul's College, Auckland

St Peter's College

Tamaki College

Waiheke High School

Western Springs College

Sister cities

Auckland City has six sister cities and two friendship city relationships. All of these cities except Hamburg (Germany) are located around the Pacific Rim:

Sister Cities

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China

Hamburg, Germany

Fukuoka, Japan

Busan, South Korea

Los Angeles, California, United States

Friendship Cities

Tomioka, Gunma, Japan

Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan

Panoramas

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