Whitianga
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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.
Key facts
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- Albert Street, Whitianga.jpg
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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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- District
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- Thames-Coromandel District
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- Ward
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- Mercury Bay ward
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- Community Board
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- Mercury Bay Community
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- Council
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- Thames-Coromandel District Council
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- Regional council
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- Waikato Regional Council
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- Mayor of Thames-Coromandel
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- Coromandel MP
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- New Zealand
- Located in
- Thames-Coromandel District
- Population
- 6160
- Image
- 00 23 0963 Hot Water Beach - NZ, Coromandel.jpg
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- Whitianga
- postal code
- 3510
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Captain Cook's visit – 1769
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Whitianga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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