Biggest Cities in New Zealand

Can you name the 15 most populous urban areas in New Zealand?

June 2015 estimates according to Wikipedia

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Last updated: April 28, 2016

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First submitted	March 29, 2012
Times taken	15,208
Average score	53.3%
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Population	Island	City
1,454,300	North	Auckland
398,300	North	Wellington
381,800	South	Christchurch
224,000	North	Hamilton
130,800	North	Tauranga
129,700	North	Napier-Hastings
117,400	South	Dunedin
83,500	North	Palmerston North

Population	Island	City
64,800	South	Nelson
56,800	North	Rotorua
56,300	North	New Plymouth
55,400	North	Whangarei
50,300	South	Invercargill
39,400	North	Whanganui
35,700	North	Gisborne

Level 35

Dec 18, 2015

New Zealand's population is probably very small

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Level 80

Aug 8, 2016

I always wonder at comments like this. Makes it seem like a great, unfathomable mystery when, you can google the answer in approximately 4 seconds.

Level 22

Feb 5, 2020

Yeah lol. And to the above comment, New Zealand has a population of about 5M

Level 65

Jul 19, 2016

cool quizz from Otorohanga

Level 43

Apr 4, 2021

aye

Level 67

Jul 19, 2016

Yay, easy for a kiwiquizzer who has been to all those places. As a NZer who has finally mastered all those States of the USA quizzes, any Americans who have mastered this quiz? :-)

Level 86

Jul 19, 2016

One American who got them all, but I used to live in NZ, so had a bit of an insider's knowledge. Been to all but 3 I think.

Level 83

Jul 19, 2016

One American who finds them

One American to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them?

Level 42

Dec 23, 2021

One American to find them all

One American to post them all

One American to show off all

Level 50

Jun 3, 2018

I'm from England, got all but five. Working on learning the rest!

Level 50

Jul 20, 2016

I got three. Yep, those three.

Level 67

Aug 7, 2016

No worries. New Zealand is pretty obscure!

Level 65

Jul 21, 2016

I Love NZ.....:'(

Level 67

Aug 7, 2016

You can try some of my NZ quizzes if you like: "Landmarks of New Zealand", "Birds of New Zealand", "Plants of New Zealand", "Kiwiana"...

Level 40

Apr 12, 2017

kiwi, you live in NZ to?

Level 62

Jan 7, 2018

Red Zombie Angel, your comment made me facepalm.

Level 67

Jan 28, 2020

Well, it is not likely redzombieangel is a zombie, or an angel, or even red..

Level 52

Jul 29, 2016

4 seems like a terrible score for an Australian. But it's what I got.

Level 67

May 26, 2019

Yep, that's pretty terrible.

Level 38

Jul 23, 2020

Oof. Im a kiwi and i didn't get Hastings OR Whanganui🤦‍♀️

Level 57

Feb 8, 2021

I got them all and I'm from Australia, although it was my second try.

Level 80

Jan 24, 2018

I can still remember my geography teacher trying to convince us that Christchurch was both New Zealand's capital and its biggest city.

Level 67

May 26, 2019

Cool, where was that?

Level 48

Oct 11, 2019

I really hope for your teacher's sake you don't live anywhere near New Zealand.

Level 56

Apr 4, 2021

One of my teachers tried to convince me that Mexico was in South America. This happened when I was about 9 years old.

Level 21

Jan 24, 2019

Did It! 0:38 remaining

Level 50

Jan 19, 2020

New Zealand is such an amazing country, I'd love to visit sometime.

Level 54

Sep 16, 2020

Level 23

Jun 27, 2020

Shouldn't Lower Hutt be included? According to wikipedia, it is the 6th largest city after Tauranga.

Level 31

Sep 20, 2020

I am very grateful to be randomly given this quiz (using the randomise button) seeing that I am a resident of none other than... Hamilton! (not a very great feat, my hometown gets picked on a lot, and there is no blame for that.)