Geography Atlas

Where Everything Happened
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme

Switch Atlas

City

Whanganui

Australia and New Zealand

Whanganui, also spelled Wanganui, is a city in the Manawatu-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island, at the mouth of the Whanganui River, the country's longest navigable waterway. It is the ancestral territory of Te Ati Haunui-a-Paparangi and related Whanganui Maori groups, was founded as the New Zealand Company's second settlement after Wellington in 1840, and was named a UNESCO City of Design in 2021; its urban population was about 42,800 in June 2025, the 19th most populous urban area in New Zealand.

Facts
Population
42,200 1
Area (sq km)
2.3727 1
Population Estimate Year
2020 1
Latitude
39.9325 degrees south 1
Longitude
175.051944 degrees east 1
Sources
1. Whanganui (Wikidata)
  • P1082 (population)
    population 42,200 (2020)
  • P625 (coordinate location)
    latitude -39.9325, longitude 175.051944
  • P2046 (area)
    area 2.3727 sq km
  • P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
    population 42200 (2020)
View the Source
Wikidata: Whanganui
Wikidata Q1015672, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Whanganui (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Australia and New Zealand (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.