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Auckland
Auckland is the most populous urban area in New Zealand, making up around 31% of the county’s entire population. It is easily the country’s most cosmopolitan city with the 2013 census showing that almost two in five Aucklanders were born overseas. It isn’t hard to see why the city is so popular with its business hubs, world-class shopping, wine regions, beautiful beaches, and the Hauraki Gulf and Islands.
The location
Straddling a volcanic field, Auckland is one of the only cities in the world to have two separate harbours on two separate major bodies of water.
It benefits from a subtropical climate with warm summers and mild winters which is one of the many reasons why the 2014 Mercer Quality of Living Survey ranked the city as the third best place to live in the world, behind only Vienna and Zurich.
It is separated into a number of suburbs but the main areas of business include the following: