Whitianga
Whitianga is a town on the Coromandel Peninsula, in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. The town is located on Mercury Bay, on the northeastern coast of the peninsula. The town has a permanent population of as of making it the second-largest town on the Coromandel Peninsula behind Thames.
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- Albert Street in Whitianga
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- Country
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- New Zealand
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- Region
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- Waikato
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- Thames-Coromandel District
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- Mercury Bay ward
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- Mercury Bay Community
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Whitianga is a town on the Coromandel Peninsula, in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. The town is located on Mercury Bay, on the northeastern coast of the peninsula. The town has a permanent population of as of making it the second-largest town on the Coromandel Peninsula behind Thames.
==Demographics== Stats NZ describes Whitianga as a small urban area, which covers . It had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2.