North Shore City is a city in the Auckland region of New Zealand.
Super ranking for Auckland Auckland is one of the best cities in the world to live in, according to Mercer's 2009 Worldwide Quality of Living Survey
North Shore City (usually informally the North Shore, or sometimes just The Shore) is a city in the Auckland region of New Zealand. The city had a population of 223,000 at the June 2008 estimate, making it the fourth most populous city in New Zealand.
The city is also the country's fourth largest city in land, with an area of 129.81 square kilometres and a coastline of 141 kilometres. It is one of four cities in the Auckland metropolitan area. It is the most densely populated city in the country because, unlike other New Zealand cities, most of the city's area is urban or suburban in character.
The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with over 1.3 million residents, 31 percent of the country's population.
Demographic trends indicate that it will continue to grow faster than the rest of the country. Increasingly cosmopolitan, Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world, and has seen many people of Asian ethnicity move there in the last two decades. |
