Whangarei is the northernmost city in New Zealand and the largest settlement of the Northland Region, part of the Whangarei District formed in 1989. Declared a city in 1964, it had a population of about 56,100 in June 2025; Captain James Cook first sighted its harbour in 1769 and named the bay for the bream he caught there, and the city is home to the volcanic Mount Parihaka and the Hundertwasser Art Centre, which opened in 2022.
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Founding Year Climate Zone Sources
1. Wikidata: Whangarei
Wikidata Q744239, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source 2. Whang?rei (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia infobox field 'established_date/founded' = '5 June 1882'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 -35.75, 174.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -35.75, 174.25
-35.75 174.25 Cfb
4. GeoNames: Whangarei - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 6230919, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 6230919, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
-35.73167 174.32391 P PPLA NZ F6 002 50900 7 Pacific/Auckland
Whangarei (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Australia and New Zealand (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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