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The metropolitan urban limits of Auckland in 2009. This is a list of suburbs in the Auckland metropolitan area, New Zealand, surrounding the Auckland City Centre.They are broadly grouped into their local board areas, and only include suburbs within the metropolitan urban limits of the Auckland urban area.
Suburbs within the Auckland metropolitan area of northern New Zealand, as defined by the Urban/Rural boundary in the Statistical Standard for Geographic Areas 2018 (SSGA18). Note that the divisions between Auckland suburbs are not officially defined, and may therefore overlap somewhat. For lists of suburbs, see List of suburbs of Auckland
Auckland forms New Zealand's largest urban area. [2] The Auckland urban area lies within the Auckland region, an administrative region that takes its name from the city. The region encompasses the city centre, as well as suburbs, surrounding towns, nearshore islands, and rural areas north and south of the urban area.
True-colour image of the region showing the Auckland urban area as the brownish area just left of centre, with the Hauraki Gulf to the right. On the mainland, the region extends from the mouth of the Kaipara Harbour in the north across the southern stretches of the Northland Peninsula, through the Waitākere Ranges and the Auckland isthmus and across the low-lying land surrounding the Manukau ...
Western Auckland Urban Zone (242,300): the part of Rodney District around Kumeū; the urban part of West Auckland; Central Auckland Urban Zone (525,900): Auckland isthmus, including the Auckland CBD and inner suburbs; Southern Auckland Urban Zone (478,400): the urban part of Manukau City; Papakura District; Whangapouri Creek and Runciman in ...
Suburbs of Auckland (8 C, 191 P) B. Suburbs of Blenheim, New Zealand (7 P) C. Suburbs of Christchurch (1 C, 91 P) D. Suburbs of Dunedin (1 C, 45 P) G.
The Whau River has often been used as a border between western and central Auckland. West Auckland is not a strictly defined area. It includes the former Waitakere City, which existed between 1989 and 2010 between the Whau River and Hobsonville, [2] [3] an area which includes major suburbs such as Henderson, Te Atatū, Glen Eden, Titirangi and New Lynn.
The area was developed into farmland in the 1840s, and the town of Howick was established as a defensive outpost by fencibles (retired British Army soldiers) to protect Auckland. Coastal holiday communities developed in the area from the 1910s, and from the 1950s underwent major redevelopment into a suburban area of greater Auckland.