Auckland-New Zealand

The Auckland urban range in the North Island of New Zealand, is the biggest and most crowded urban region in the nation. Auckland has a populace of 1,418,000, which constitutes 32 percent of the nation's populace. It is some piece of the more extensive Auckland Region, which incorporates the provincial regions and towns north and south of the urban range, in addition to the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, bringing about an aggregate populace of 1,529,300 that is administered by the Auckland Council. Auckland additionally has the biggest Polynesian populace of any city on the planet. In Māori, Auckland's name is Tāmaki Makaurau and the transliterated rendition of Auckland is Ākarana.

The Auckland urban zone extents to Waiwera in the north, Kumeu in the northwest, and Runciman in the south. It is not adjoining; the segment from Waiwera to Whangaparaoa Peninsula is discrete from its closest neighboring suburb of Long Bay. Auckland lies between the Hauraki Gulf of the Pacific Ocean to the east, the low Hunua Ranges to the south-east, the Manukau Harbor to the south-west, and the Waitakere Ranges and more modest reaches to the west and north-west. The focal piece of the urban region involves a slender isthmus between the Manukau Harbor on the Tasman Sea and the Waitemata Harbor on the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the few urban communities on the planet to have two harbors on two different significant waterways. The 2014 Mercer Quality of Living Survey positioned Auckland third place on the planet on its rundown, while the Economist's World's most liveable urban communities record of 2011 positioned Auckland in ninth spot. In 2010, Auckland was delegated a Beta World City in the World Cities Study Group's stock by Loughborough Univers.