Territorial authorities of New Zealand

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Territorial authorities of New Zealand

Territorial authorities are the second tier of local government

Local government

Local governments are administrative offices that are smaller than a state. The term is used to contrast with offices at nation-state level, which are referred to as the central government, national government, or federal government....
in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
, below regional councils

Regions of New Zealand

The region is the top tier of local government in New Zealand. There are 16 regions of New Zealand. Twelve are governed by an elected regional council, while four are governed by Territorial Authorities of New Zealand which also perform the functions of a regional council and thus are known as unitary authority....
. There are 73 territorial authorities: 16 city councils

List of cities in New Zealand

Chatham Islands

The archipelago of the Chatham Islands is a territory of New Zealand of about ten islands within a radius. The remote islands, over east of southern New Zealand, have officially belonged to the country since 1842....
Council. Five territorial authorities (Nelson City Council

Nelson, New Zealand

The city of Nelson is close to the centre of New Zealand. It lies at the shore of Tasman Bay, at the northern end of the South Island, and is the administrative centre of the Nelson region....
, Gisborne

Gisborne, New Zealand

Gisborne is the name of a unitary authority in New Zealand, being both a Regions of New Zealand and a district. Gisborne is also the name of the largest settlement within the Gisborne Region....
, Tasman, and Marlborough

Marlborough, New Zealand

Marlborough is one of the List of regions in New Zealand, located in the northeast of the South Island. Marlborough is a unitary authority, both a region and a district, and its council is located at Blenheim, New Zealand....
District Councils and the Chatham Islands Council) also perform the functions of a regional council and thus are known as unitary authorities

Unitary authority

A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national government....
. Territorial authority districts are not subdivisions of regions, and some of them fall within more than one region.

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Territorial authorities are the second tier of local government

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Taupo District Council

The Taupo District Council is a Territorial authorities of New Zealand located in the Central North Island of New Zealand....
has the distinction of straddling the boundaries of four different regions (see below). Regional council areas are based on water catchment areas, whereas territorial authorities are based on community of interest and road access. Regional councils are responsible for the administration of many environmental and public transport matters, while the territorial authorities that administer local roading and reserves, sewerage, building consents, the land use and subdivision aspects of resource management, and other local matters.

Territorial authorities

North Island
North Island

The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. The island is 113,729 square km in area, making it the List of islands by area....

Name	Seat	Area (km²)	Region(s) Regions of New Zealand The region is the top tier of local government in New Zealand. There are 16 regions of New Zealand. Twelve are governed by an elected regional council, while four are governed by Territorial Authorities of New Zealand which also perform the functions of a regional council and thus are known as unitary authority....
Far North District Far North District The Far North District of New Zealand, as its name suggests, is the northernmost district within New Zealand, consisting of the northern tip of the North Island....	Kaikohe Kaikohe Kaikohe is the central service area for the Far North District of New Zealand, about 260 km from Auckland, situated on New Zealand State Highway network at ....		Northland Northland Region The Northland Region , one of the 16 regions of New Zealand, is, as the name suggests, the northernmost of New Zealand's administrative regions....
Whangarei District Whangarei District The Whangarei District is located in Northland Region, New Zealand. Whangarei is the principal town and the district seat. Other towns include Hukerenui, Hikurangi, Titoki, Ruakaka and Waipu....	Whangarei Whangarei Whangarei, pronounced [ is the northernmost city in New Zealand and the regional capital of Northland Region. Although it is commonly classified as a city, officially it is under the jurisdiction of the Whangarei District Council, a local body created in 1989 to administer both the city proper and its hinterland....		Northland
Kaipara District Kaipara District The Kaipara District is located in the Northland Region in northern New Zealand....	Dargaville Dargaville Dargaville is a town in the North Island of New Zealand. It is situated on the bank of the Northern Wairoa River, Northland in the Northland Region region....		Northland
Rodney District Rodney District The Rodney District of New Zealand is the northernmost area in New Zealand's Auckland Region, created in 1989 from the amalgamation of Helensville, New Zealand and Rodney County....	Orewa Orewa Orewa, a town in the North Island of New Zealand lies on the Hibiscus Coast, New Zealand, 30 kilometres north of Auckland, and close to the base of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula....		Auckland Auckland Region The Auckland Region is one of the sixteen Regions of New Zealand of New Zealand, named for the city of Auckland, New Zealand's largest. It is the most populated region of New Zealand, as well as being the most prosperous in economic terms....
Auckland City Auckland City Auckland City is the city and Territorial Authorities of New Zealand covering the Auckland isthmus and most of the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, in the North Island of New Zealand....	Auckland	1059	Auckland
North Shore City North Shore, New Zealand North Shore City is a city in the Auckland Region region of New Zealand. The city had a population of making it the fourth most populous city in New Zealand....	Takapuna	130	Auckland
Waitakere City	Henderson	367	Auckland
Manukau City	Manukau	551	Auckland
Papakura District	Papakura	123	Auckland
Franklin District Franklin District The Franklin District is a municipality to the south of Auckland in the North Island of New Zealand....	Pukekohe Pukekohe Pukekohe is a small but growing rural service town in the Franklin , New Zealand of the North Island of New Zealand. Located at the southern edge of the Auckland Region region, it is approximately 50 kilometres south of Auckland, New Zealand City, between the southern shore of the Manukau Harbour and the mouth of the Waikato River....		Waikato Waikato Waikato is the name of a region in the North Island of New Zealand. Exact boundaries of the region depend largely on the use of the name, but in all cases it refers to an area around the city of Hamilton, New Zealand and extending along the banks of the Waikato River.... (60.18%) Auckland (39.82%)
Thames-Coromandel District	Thames Thames, New Zealand Thames is a town at the southwestern end of the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand's North Island. It is located on the Firth of Thames close to the mouth of the Waihou River, at ....		Waikato
Hauraki District Hauraki District The Hauraki District Council is a municipality in the North Island of New Zealand. The seat of the council is at Paeroa.The area covered by the district extends from the southwest corner of the Firth of Thames southeast towards Te Aroha, although that town lies beyond its boundaries....	Paeroa Paeroa Paeroa is a small town in New Zealand. It is located in the northern Waikato region, known locally as the Thames Valley, New Zealand, at the foot of the Coromandel Peninsula....		Waikato
Waikato District Waikato District The Waikato District is the municipality in the northern Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is administered by the Waikato District Council, whose headquarters are in Ngaruawahia....	Ngaruawahia Ngaruawahia Ngaruawahia is a town in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand.The meaning of the town's name is open the food pits, which comes from a feast held hundreds of years ago to celebrate the coming together of two tribes through a marriage....		Waikato
Matamata-Piako District Matamata-Piako District The Matamata-Piako District is a Territorial Authorities of New Zealand in the Waikato List of regions in New Zealand of New Zealand. It lies to the east of the city of Hamilton, New Zealand....	Matamata Matamata Matamata is a rural Waikato town in New Zealand with a total population of around 12,000 . It is located near the base of the Kaimai Ranges, and is a thriving farming area known for Thoroughbred bloodstock....		Waikato
Hamilton City Hamilton, New Zealand Hamilton is the centre of New Zealand's fourth largest urban area, and Hamilton City is the country's seventh largest territorial authorities of New Zealand....	Hamilton	94	Waikato
Waipa District	Te Awamutu Te Awamutu Te Awamutu is a town in the Waikato in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the council seat of the Waipa District and serves as a service town for the farming communities which surround it....		Waikato
South Waikato District South Waikato District The South Waikato District is a municipality located between the cities of Hamilton, New Zealand to the north, Rotorua to the east, Taupo to the South, Ruapehu District to the West in the North Island of New Zealand....	Tokoroa Tokoroa Tokoroa is the third largest town in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand and largest settlement in the South Waikato , New Zealand....		Waikato
Otorohanga District	Otorohanga		Waikato
Waitomo District	Te Kuiti Te Kuiti Te Kuiti is a small town in the south of the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand. It lies at the junction of New Zealand State Highway network and on the North Island Main Trunk Railway, 70 km south of Hamilton, New Zealand....		Waikato (94.87%) Manawatu-Wanganui Manawatu-Wanganui Manawatu-Wanganui is a region situated in the lower half of the North Island of New Zealand, around the city of Palmerston North and the central city of Wanganui.... (5.13%)
Taupo District Taupo District The Taupo District covers 6,350 km? of land, as well as a further 610 km? of lake area, both in Lake Taupo, New Zealand's largest lake, and also in the smaller Lake Rotoaira....	Taupo		Waikato (73.74%) Bay of Plenty Bay of Plenty The Bay of Plenty , often abbreviated to BoP, is a Regions of New Zealand in the North Island of New Zealand situated around the body of water of the same name.... (14.31%) Hawke's Bay (11.26%) Manawatu-Wanganui(0.69%)
Western Bay of Plenty District	Greerton, Tauranga City		Bay of Plenty
Tauranga City	Tauranga	168	Bay of Plenty
Opotiki District Opotiki Opotiki is a town in the eastern Bay of Plenty in the North Island of New Zealand. It houses the headquarters of the Opotiki District Council and comes under the Bay of Plenty Regional Council....	Opotiki		Bay of Plenty
Whakatane District	Whakatane		Bay of Plenty
Rotorua District	Rotorua		Bay of Plenty (61.52%) Waikato (38.48%)
Kawerau District Kawerau, New Zealand Kawerau is a town in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand. The town is situated 100 km south-east of Tauranga and 58 km east of Rotorua....	Kawerau	22	Bay of Plenty
Gisborne District Gisborne, New Zealand Gisborne is the name of a unitary authority in New Zealand, being both a Regions of New Zealand and a district. Gisborne is also the name of the largest settlement within the Gisborne Region....	Gisborne		Unitary authority
Wairoa District	Wairoa		Hawke's Bay
Hastings District Hastings, New Zealand Hastings is the administrative centre of the Hastings District in the Hawke's Bay of the North Island of New Zealand. Hastings is located inland from the City of Napier....	Hastings		Hawke's Bay
Napier City Napier, New Zealand Napier is a seaport List of cities in New Zealand in Hawke's Bay , New Zealand. It has a population of Less than twenty kilometres separate the centres of Hastings City and Napier, and as such the two are often called "The Twin Cities" or "The Bay Cities"....	Napier	106	Hawke's Bay
Central Hawke's Bay District	Waipawa Waipawa Waipawa is the second-largest town in Central Hawke's Bay in the east of the North Island of New Zealand. At the 2001 Census it had a population of 1,872, a change of -2.0 percent since the 1996 census....		Hawke's Bay
New Plymouth District	New Plymouth		Taranaki Taranaki Taranaki is a region in the west of New Zealand's North Island and is the 10th largest region of New Zealand by population. It is named for the region's main geographical feature, Mount Taranaki....
Stratford District Stratford, New Zealand Stratford is the only town in the central Taranaki district of Stratford District, New Zealand. It lies beneath the eastern slopes of Mount Taranaki/Egmont, approximately half-way between New Plymouth and Hawera, near the geographic centre of the Taranaki region....	Stratford		Taranaki (68.13%) Manawatu-Wanganui (31.87%)
South Taranaki District South Taranaki District South Taranaki is a political district on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island that contains the towns of Hawera, Manaia, Opunake, Patea, Eltham, New Zealand, and Waverley, Taranaki....	Hawera		Taranaki
Ruapehu District Ruapehu District Ruapehu District is a territorial authority near the centre of New Zealand's North Island.It has an area of 6,730.185 square kilometers and a population of 13,569 at the 2006 census ....	Taumarunui Taumarunui Taumarunui is a town in the King Country of the central North Island of New Zealand. It is on New Zealand State Highway network and the North Island Main Trunk Railway....		Manawatu-Wanganui
Rangitikei District Rangitikei District The Rangitikei District is a Territorial Authorities of New Zealand located primarily in the Manawatu-Wanganui region in the North Island of New Zealand, although a small part, the town of Ngamatea , of it lies in the Hawke's Bay Region....	Marton Marton, New Zealand Marton is a town in the Rangitikei District district of the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It is situated 35 kilometres southeast of Wanganui and 40 kilometres northwest of Palmerston North....		Manawatu-Wanganui (86.37%) Hawke's Bay (13.63%)
Wanganui District	Wanganui		Manawatu-Wanganui
Manawatu District Manawatu District Manawatu is a Territorial Authorities of New Zealand in the Manawatu-Wanganui region in the North Island of New Zealand....	Feilding Feilding, New Zealand Feilding is a town in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on New Zealand State Highway network, 20 kilometres north of Palmerston North....		Manawatu-Wanganui
Palmerston North City Palmerston North Palmerston North is the main city of the Manawatu-Wanganui region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is an inland city with a population of As of 2008 Palmerston North is the eleventh largest city in New Zealand, and the centre of the seventh largest urban area....	Palmerston North	337	Manawatu-Wanganui
Tararua District Tararua District The Tararua District lies near the south-east corner of New Zealand's North Island. Created in 1989, it was named after the Tararua Range, which forms much of its western boundary....	Dannevirke Dannevirke Dannevirke , is a rural service town in the Manawatu-Wanganui area of New Zealand. It is the major town of the administrative district of Tararua , New Zealand, the easternmost of the districts in which the Manawatu-Wanganui Regional Council has responsibilities....		Manawatu-Wanganui (98.42%) Wellington Wellington Region The Wellington List of regions in New Zealand of New Zealand occupies the southern end of the North Island.... (1.58%)
Horowhenua District Horowhenua District Horowhenua is a Territorial Authorities of New Zealand on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand.Unlike many other districts, it has a distinct identity, so much so that "The Horowhenua", as it is usually called, is regarded more as distinct region than as part of the region of Manawatu-Wanganui, which is how it is officially des...	Levin Levin, New Zealand Levin is a town in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand, and is the largest town in the Horowhenua district. It is on State Highway 1 and the North Island Main Trunk railway, 90km north of Wellington, New Zealand, 50km south of Palmerston North, and two kilometres to the east of Lake Horowhenua....		Manawatu-Wanganui
Masterton District	Masterton		Wellington
Kapiti Coast District Kapiti Coast District The Kapiti Coast District is the name of a local government district in the north-west corner of the Wellington Region, New Zealand. It is similar to, but not identical to, the area known as the Kapiti Coast, a more ambiguous and less defined area stretching roughly from Porirua to the coast of the Horowhenua district....	Paraparaumu Paraparaumu Paraparaumu is a town in the south-western North Island of New Zealand. It lies in the Kapiti Coast, 50 kilometres north of the nation's capital city, Wellington....	733	Wellington
Carterton District Carterton, New Zealand Carterton is a small town in the Wellington Region of New Zealand and the seat of the Carterton District. It lies in a farming area of the Wairarapa in New Zealand's North Island....	Carterton		Wellington
South Wairarapa District South Wairarapa District South Wairarapa District is at the south-east tip of the North Island of New Zealand....	Martinborough Martinborough Martinborough is a town in South Wairarapa , New Zealand, a district in the Wellington , New Zealand on the North Island of New Zealand. It is 65 kilometres east of Wellington, New Zealand and 35 kilometres southwest of Masterton....		Wellington
Upper Hutt City Upper Hutt Upper Hutt is New Zealand's smallest city by population, the second largest by land area. It is part of Wellington Region....	Upper Hutt	542	Wellington
Porirua City Porirua Porirua is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand, 20 km north of the Wellington. A large proportion of the population commutes to Wellington, so it may be considered a satellite city....	Porirua	182	Wellington
Hutt City Lower Hutt Lower Hutt is a city in the Wellington Region region of New Zealand. Its council has adopted the name Hutt City Council, but neither the New Zealand Geographic Board nor the Local Government Act recognise the name Hutt City....	Lower Hutt	377	Wellington
Wellington City Wellington City Wellington City, the area in New Zealand administered by the Wellington City Council, forms one of several territorial authorities in the Wellington Region region....	Wellington	289	Wellington

South Island
South Island

The South Island is the larger of the two major Islands of New Zealand of New Zealand, the other being the more populous North Island. The Maori name for the South Island, Te Wai Pounamu, meaning "The Water/s of Greenstone" , possibly evolved from Te Wahi Pounamu which means "The Place Of Greenstone"....

Name	Seat	Area (km²)	Region(s) Regions of New Zealand The region is the top tier of local government in New Zealand. There are 16 regions of New Zealand. Twelve are governed by an elected regional council, while four are governed by Territorial Authorities of New Zealand which also perform the functions of a regional council and thus are known as unitary authority....
Tasman District	Richmond Richmond, New Zealand Richmond, the seat of the Tasman, New Zealand, lies 13km south of Nelson, New Zealand in the South Island of New Zealand, close to the southern extremity of Tasman Bay....		unitary authority
Nelson City Nelson, New Zealand The city of Nelson is close to the centre of New Zealand. It lies at the shore of Tasman Bay, at the northern end of the South Island, and is the administrative centre of the Nelson region....	Nelson	445	unitary authority
Marlborough District Marlborough, New Zealand Marlborough is one of the List of regions in New Zealand, located in the northeast of the South Island. Marlborough is a unitary authority, both a region and a district, and its council is located at Blenheim, New Zealand....	Blenheim Blenheim, New Zealand Blenheim is a town in Marlborough, New Zealand, in the north east of the South Island of New Zealand. It has a population of The area which surrounds the town is well known as a centre of New Zealand's wine industry....		unitary authority
Buller District Buller District Buller District, administered by the Buller District Council is an administrative region in the West Coast, New Zealand of New Zealand. It covers Westport, New Zealand, Karamea, Reefton and Inangahua Junction....	Westport Westport, New Zealand Westport is a town in the West Coast, New Zealand region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is located on the northern bank and at the mouth of the Buller River, close by the prominent headland of Cape Foulwind....		West Coast West Coast, New Zealand The West Coast is one of the List of regions in New Zealand, located on the west coast of the South Island, and is one of the more remote and most sparsely populated areas of the country....
Grey District Grey District Grey District Council in the West Coast, New Zealand of New Zealand is a municipality that covers Greymouth, Runanga, New Zealand, Blackball, New Zealand, Cobden, New Zealand and settlements along the Grey River, New Zealand....	Greymouth		West Coast
Westland District Westland District Westland District is a Territorial authorities of New Zealand on the West Coast, New Zealand of New Zealand's South Island....	Hokitika		West Coast
Kaikoura District	Kaikoura		Canterbury
Hurunui District Hurunui District The Hurunui District is a political district on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, north of Christchurch, New Zealand. It forms part of the Canterbury region and stretches from the east coast to the main divide....	Amberley Amberley, New Zealand Amberley is a town located in the Hurunui District of north Canterbury, New Zealand, on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It is located on New Zealand State Highway network approximately 50 km north of Christchurch, New Zealand....		Canterbury
Selwyn District Selwyn District The Selwyn district is a predominantly rural area in central Canterbury, New Zealand, on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island. It is named after the Selwyn River, which is in turn named after Bishop Selwyn, an early explorer of the area....	Rolleston Rolleston, New Zealand Rolleston is the centre of the Selwyn District of Canterbury and the Selwyn District Council has its headquarters in the town.It is located next to State Highway 1, 22km south-west of Christchurch on the Canterbury Plains in the South Island of New Zealand....		Canterbury
Waimakariri District Waimakariri District The Waimakariri District is a political district of New Zealand, located in the South Island, on the eastern coast of north Canterbury, New Zealand....	Rangiora		Canterbury
Christchurch City	Christchurch		Canterbury
Ashburton District Ashburton, New Zealand Ashburton is a town and district in the Canterbury, New Zealand region on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It is the third-largest centre in Canterbury, after Christchurch, New Zealand and Timaru....	Ashburton		Canterbury
Mackenzie District Mackenzie District Mackenzie District is a political district in New Zealand's South Island. It is part of the larger Canterbury, New Zealand....	Fairlie		Canterbury
Timaru District	Timaru		Canterbury
Waimate District	Waimate		Canterbury
Waitaki District	Oamaru Oamaru Oamaru , the largest town in North Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand, is the main town in the Waitaki District. It is 80 kilometres south of Timaru and 120 kilometres north of Dunedin, on the Pacific Ocean coast, and State Highway 1 and the railway Main South Line connects it to both....		Canterbury (59.61%) Otago Otago Otago is a regions of New Zealand in the south of the South Island. It has an area of approximately making it the country's second largest region.... (40.39%)
Queenstown-Lakes District Queenstown, New Zealand Queenstown is a international resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. It is built around an inlet on Lake Wakatipu, a long thin lake formed by glacial processes that is shaped like a staggered lightning bolt, and has spectacular views of nearby mountains....	Queenstown		Otago
Central Otago District	Alexandra Alexandra, New Zealand Alexandra is a town in the Central Otago district of the Otago region of New Zealand. It is located on the banks of the Clutha River , on New Zealand State Highway network, 188 km by road from Dunedin and 33 km south of Cromwell, New Zealand....		Otago
Dunedin City	Dunedin		Otago
Clutha District Clutha District The Clutha District is an administrative district of southern New Zealand, with its headquarters in the Otago town of Balclutha, New Zealand. The Clutha District has a land area of 6,362.86 km? and a 2006 census population of 16,839 usual residents....	Balclutha Balclutha, New Zealand Balclutha is a town in Otago, it lies towards the end of the Clutha River on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It is about halfway between Dunedin, New Zealand and Invercargill on the Main South Line railway, State Highway 1 and the Southern Scenic Route....		Otago
Southland District Southland District Southland District is a Territorial Authorities of New Zealand in the South Island of New Zealand. Southland District covers the majority of the land area of Southland , New Zealand, although the region also covers Gore, New Zealand, Invercargill and adjacent territorial waters....	Invercargill Invercargill Invercargill is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world. It is the commercial centre of the Southland, New Zealand List of regions in New Zealand....		Southland Southland Region Southland is the name of New Zealand's southernmost Regions of New Zealand and is also the name of a Territorial Authorities of New Zealand within that region....
Gore District Gore, New Zealand Gore is a town, surrounding borough, and Territorial Authorities of New Zealand in the Southland, New Zealand region of the South Island of New Zealand....	Gore		Southland
Invercargill City	Invercargill	491	Southland

Stewart Island/Rakiura
Stewart Island/Rakiura

Stewart Island/Rakiura is the third-largest island of New Zealand. It lies south of South Island, across Foveaux Strait. Its permanent population is slightly fewer than 400 people, most of whom live in the settlement of Oban, New Zealand....

Name	Seat	Area (km²)	Population	Region
Southland District	Invercargill, South Island	1746	402	Southland

Southland Regional Council (Environment Southland)

Southland District Council
Southland District

Southland District is a Territorial Authorities of New Zealand in the South Island of New Zealand. Southland District covers the majority of the land area of Southland , New Zealand, although the region also covers Gore, New Zealand, Invercargill and adjacent territorial waters....

Chatham Islands
Chatham Islands

The archipelago of the Chatham Islands is a territory of New Zealand of about ten islands within a radius. The remote islands, over east of southern New Zealand, have officially belonged to the country since 1842....

Chatham Islands Council
Chatham Islands

The archipelago of the Chatham Islands is a territory of New Zealand of about ten islands within a radius. The remote islands, over east of southern New Zealand, have officially belonged to the country since 1842....
("Territory")

Other islands

There are a number of islands where the Minister of Local Government is the territorial authority, two of which have a 'permanent population and/or permanent buildings and structures.' The main islands are listed below (population according to 2001 census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
in parenthesis):

Mayor Island/Tuhua (3)
Motiti Island
Motiti Island

Motiti Island is located off the Bay of Plenty coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is 21 kilometres northeast of Tauranga and 9.4km North East of Papamoa....
(30)
White Island
Moutohora Island
Bare Island
Bare Island

Bare Island is a small island in South-eastern Sydney Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located about 16km south east of the Sydney central business district, close to the northern headland of Botany Bay....

In addition, seven of the nine groups of the New Zealand Outlying Islands

New Zealand Outlying Islands

The New Zealand outlying islands comprise nine island groups, located in the subtropics and subantarctic, which are part of New Zealand but lie outside of the New Zealand continental shelf....
are outside of any territorial authority:

Kermadec Islands
Kermadec Islands

The Kermadec Islands are an island arc in the South Pacific Ocean. The islands have been part of New Zealand since 1887.The islands lie within 29? to 31.5? south latitude and 178? to 179? west longitude, 800 – 1000 km northeast of New Zealand's North Island, and a similar distance southwest of Tonga....
(3)
Three Kings Islands
Three Kings Islands

The Three Kings Islands are a group of 13 islands about 55 kilometres northwest of Cape Reinga, the northernmost point of the North Island of New Zealand, where the Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea converge ....
Bounty Islands
Bounty Islands

The Bounty Islands at are a small group of 13 granite islets and numerous rocks, with a combined area of 135 hectare, in the south Pacific Ocean which are territorially part of New Zealand....
The Snares
The Snares

The Snares is a small island group at approximately 200 kilometres south of New Zealand's South Island. The Snares consist of the main island North East Island, New Zealand and the smaller Broughton Island, New Zealand as well as the somewhat isolated Western Chain, New Zealand approx 5 km to the WSW....
Antipodes Islands
Antipodes Islands

The Antipodes Islands are inhospitable volcano islands to the south of?and territorially part of?New Zealand. They lie 860 kilometres to the southeast of Stewart Island/Rakiura....
Auckland Islands
Auckland Islands

The Auckland Islands form an archipelago of the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands and include the following: Auckland Island, Adams Island, New Zealand, Enderby Island, New Zealand, Disappointment Island, Ewing Island, New Zealand, Dundas Island and Green Island, with a combined area of 625 km2....
Campbell Islands

(the Chatham Islands

Chatham Islands

The archipelago of the Chatham Islands is a territory of New Zealand of about ten islands within a radius. The remote islands, over east of southern New Zealand, have officially belonged to the country since 1842....
form a special territorial authority themselves, while the Solander Islands

Solander Islands

The Solander Islands are a small chain of uninhabited volcano islets lying at , close to the western end of the Foveaux Strait in southern New Zealand....
are part of Southland Region

Southland Region

Southland is the name of New Zealand's southernmost Regions of New Zealand and is also the name of a Territorial Authorities of New Zealand within that region....
and Southland District

Southland District

Southland District is a Territorial Authorities of New Zealand in the South Island of New Zealand. Southland District covers the majority of the land area of Southland , New Zealand, although the region also covers Gore, New Zealand, Invercargill and adjacent territorial waters....
)

1989 local government reforms

For many decades until the local government reforms of 1989, a borough with more than 20,000 people could be proclaimed a city

List of cities in New Zealand

After the local government reforms of 1989, the term "city" began to take on two meanings in New Zealand. Before 1989, a borough council with more than 20,000 people could be proclaimed a city....
. The boundaries of councils tended to follow the edge of the built-up area, so little distinction was made between the urban area and the local government area.

New Zealand’s local government structural arrangements were significantly reformed in 1989 when approximately 700 councils and special purpose bodies were amalgamated to create 87 new local authorities. Regional councils were reduced in number from 20 to 13, territorial authorities (city/district councils) from 200 to 75, and special purpose bodies from over 400 to 7. The new district and city councils were generally much larger and most covered substantial areas of both urban and rural land. Many places that once had a city council were now being administered by a district council.

As a result, the term "city" began to take on two meanings.

The word "city" came to be used in a less formal sense to describe major urban areas independent of local body boundaries. This informal usage is jealously guarded. Gisborne, for example, adamantly described itself as the first city in the world to see the new millennium. Gisborne is administered by a district council, but its status as a city is not generally disputed.

Under the current law the minimum population for a new city is 50,000.

Changes since 1989

Since the 1989 reorganisations conducted by the Local Government Commission, there have been few major reorganisations or status changes in local government. Incomplete list:

1991: Invercargill re-proclaimed a city.
1992: (by a Local Government Amendment Act) Abolition of Nelson-Marlborough Regional Council Kaikoura District was transferred to the Canterbury Region, and Nelson City and Tasman and Marlborough districts became unitary authorities.
1995: The Chatham Islands County
Chatham Islands

The archipelago of the Chatham Islands is a territory of New Zealand of about ten islands within a radius. The remote islands, over east of southern New Zealand, have officially belonged to the country since 1842....
was dissolved and reconstituted, by a specific Act of Parliament, as the "Chatham Islands Territory" with powers similar to those of territorial authorities and some functions similar to those of a regional council.
2004: Tauranga became a city again on 1 March.
2006: Banks Peninsula District merged into Christchurch City as a result of 2005 referendum.

During 2006 and 2007 there have been moves to propose radical alterations in the Auckland region.

Reports on completed reorganisation proposals since 1999 are available on the Local Government Commission's site (link below).

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Territorial authorities of New Zealand

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Chatham IslandsChatham IslandsThe archipelago of the Chatham Islands is a territory of New Zealand of about ten islands within a radius. The remote islands, over east of southern New Zealand, have officially belonged to the country since 1842....

Other islands

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See also

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North Island
North Island

The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. The island is 113,729 square km in area, making it the List of islands by area....

Stewart Island/Rakiura
Stewart Island/Rakiura

Stewart Island/Rakiura is the third-largest island of New Zealand. It lies south of South Island, across Foveaux Strait. Its permanent population is slightly fewer than 400 people, most of whom live in the settlement of Oban, New Zealand....

Chatham Islands
Chatham Islands

The archipelago of the Chatham Islands is a territory of New Zealand of about ten islands within a radius. The remote islands, over east of southern New Zealand, have officially belonged to the country since 1842....