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Tauranga

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New Zealand

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Population
155K
Coordinates
-37.6878, 176.1651
Category
cities

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Tauranga is a coastal city in the Bay of Plenty Region and the fifth-most populous city of New Zealand, with an urban population of 160,900, or roughly 3% of the national population. It was settled by Māori late in the 13th century and colonised by Europeans in the early 19th century. It was constituted as a city in 1963.

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