New Plymouth, known in Maori as Ngamotu, is the principal city of the Taranaki region on New Zealand's North Island. European whalers and traders made contact with the area's Maori iwi from around 1823, and the first organized settlers arrived on the William Bryan on March 31, 1841, the town becoming a fortified garrison during conflict with Maori in 1860 and 1861 and being declared a city in 1949. Its urban population was 60,200 in June 2025. New Plymouth serves as a service center for dairy farming and the oil, gas and petrochemical industries, and it won the International Awards for Liveable Communities in 2021 for its population category.
Facts
Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Latitude39.057778 degrees south 1 Longitude174.074167 degrees east 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. New Plymouth (Wikidata)
P571 (inception)
+1841-03-31T00:00:00Z
P1082 (population)
population 57,600 (2020)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude -39.057778, longitude 174.074167
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 0 m
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 57600 (2020)
View the Source2. GeoNames: New Plymouth - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2186239
-39.06667 174.08333 P PPLA NZ F9 033 90100 64 Pacific/Auckland
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 64 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -39.25, 174.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -39.25, 174.25
-39.25 174.25 Cfb
New Plymouth (Wikipedia)
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