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North Island

Also known as North Island of New Zealand, New Zealand North Island, North Island, New Zealand, New Ulster, North Island, NZ, Te Ika-a-Māui, Te Ika a Māui

more northern, and smaller, of the two main islands of New Zealand

AI overview

North Island is the smaller and more northern of New Zealand's two main islands. It matters as one of the two primary landmasses that make up New Zealand.

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Vinony's link graph records 5,545 inbound references to North Island, and connects out to Hawke's Bay Region, list of islands of New Zealand and European New Zealanders.

The entry is geolocated on the map.

It is catalogued under topics including Islands of New Zealand, North Island and Use New Zealand English from April 2019.

Vinony links it to 89 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Instance of: island
Part of: New Zealand
Named after: north
Official name: Te Ika-a-Māui
Country: New Zealand
Located in: New Zealand
Continent: Insular Oceania
Population: 3519800
Area: 113729
Elevation: 2797
Time zone: UTC+13:00
Body of water: Pacific Ocean
Highest point: Mount Ruapehu
Image: Sailing school - Lake Taupo.jpg
Has parts of class: region of New Zealand

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native label: Te Ika-a-Māui
Commons category: North Island, New Zealand
topic's main category: Category:North Island
language used: Māori
located in/on physical feature: New Zealand
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview

The North Island (co-officially Te Ika-a-Māui from Māori) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but less populous South Island by Cook Strait. With an area of 113,729 km (43,911 sq mi), it is the world's 14th-largest island, constituting 43% of New Zealand's land area. It has a population of 4,067,400 (June 2025), which is 76% of New Zealand's residents, making it the most populous island in Polynesia and the 28th-most-populous island in the world.

There are twelve main urban areas are in the North Island. From north to south, they are Whangārei, Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Rotorua, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Napier, Hastings, Whanganui, Palmerston North, and New Zealand's capital city Wellington, which is located at the south-west tip of the island.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “North Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.