Northland
Northland is the northernmost region of New Zealand. Whangarei is its only city; the next biggest towns have a few thousand people. The Northland Region covers the area from Te Hana in the south to Cape Reinga at the northern tip of the North Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Whangarei and Far Far North.
Whangarei
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Whangarei is the main city of the Northland region, in the North Island of New Zealand. It has a warm semi-tropical climate, with summer daytime temperatures around 24–26°C, regular rainy days year round and mild winters that rarely have frosts and are mild enough for the region to be described as "the winterless north".
Far Far North
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The Far Far North is the northernmost district of Northland in the North Island of New Zealand, further north than the Bay of Islands and the Hokianga.
Kaitaia
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Kaitaia is a town near the southern end of Ninety Mile Beach in the Far Far North of New Zealand. It is the biggest town in the Far Far North and the last town of any size before Cape Reinga at the northern tip of the North Island.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Bay of Islands and Lower Northland.
Bay of Islands
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The Bay of Islands is a historic area and very popular tourist destination in the Northland region of the North Island of New Zealand.
Hokianga
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The Hokianga area surrounds the Hokianga Harbour in the Northland region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is sparsely populated and has many little clusters of houses in a very rural setting.
Northland
- Type: region of New Zealand with 201,000 residents
- Description: region at the northern end of New Zealand’s North Island
- Also known as: “Northland Region”
- Neighbors: Auckland Region
- Location: North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Satellite Map
Discover Northland from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Armenian—“Northland” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Northland”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة نورثلاند”
- Aragonese: “Rechión de Northland”
- Armenian: “Նորթլենդ”
- Balinese: “Wawengkon Dataran Kalér”
- Basque: “Northland eskualdea”
- Bengali: “নর্থল্যান্ড অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Нортланд”
- Catalan: “Northland”
- Catalan: “Regió de Northland”
- Cebuano: “Northland”
- Chinese: “Northland Tōa-khu”
- Chinese: “北地大区”
- Croatian: “Northland”
- Czech: “Northland”
- Danish: “Northland Region”
- Dutch: “Northland-regio”
- Dutch: “Northland”
- Esperanto: “Nordia regiono”
- Esperanto: “Nordia Regiono”
- Esperanto: “Nordlanda regiono”
- Esperanto: “Northland”
- Esperanto: “Te Tai-tokerau”
- Estonian: “Northlandi piirkond”
- Finnish: “Northland”
- French: “Northland”
- French: “région du Northland”
- Galician: “Rexión de Northland”
- Georgian: “ნორთლენდი”
- Georgian: “ნორთლენდის რეგიონი”
- German: “Northland”
- German: “NZ-NTL”
- Greek: “Nόρθλαντ”
- Gujarati: “નોર્થલેંડ પ્રદેશ”
- Hebrew: “אזור נורת’לנד”
- Hebrew: “מחוז נורת’לנד”
- Hebrew: “נורת’לנד (ניו זילנד)”
- Hebrew: “נורת’לנד, ניו זילנד”
- Hebrew: “נורת’לנד”
- Hindi: “नॉर्थलैंड प्रदेश”
- Hindi: “नॉर्थलैण्ड क्षेत्र”
- Hungarian: “Northland régió”
- Hungarian: “Northland”
- Indonesian: “Region Northland”
- Italian: “Northland”
- Japanese: “ノースランド”
- Japanese: “ノースランド地方”
- Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “노스랜드 지방”
- Korean: “노슬랜드 지방”
- Latvian: “Nortlenda”
- Latvian: “Nortlendas reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Nortlandas”
- Lithuanian: “Nortlendo regionas”
- Macedonian: “Нортленд”
- Malay: “Wilayah Northland”
- Maori: “Tai-tokerau”
- Maori: “Takiwā o Te Tai tokerau”
- Maori: “Te Tai-tokerau”
- Marathi: “नॉर्थलँड प्रदेश”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Northland Tōa-khu”
- Moroccan Arabic: “جيهة نورطلاند”
- Northern Frisian: “Northland (Regiuun uun Nei-Sialun)”
- Northern Frisian: “Northland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Northland Region”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Northland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Northland på New Zealand”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Regionen Northland på New Zealand”
- Norwegian: “Northland”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Northland”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Te Tai Tokerau”
- Persian: “منطقه نورثلند”
- Polish: “Northland”
- Portuguese: “Northland”
- Romanian: “Northland”
- Russian: “Норслэнд”
- Russian: “Нортленд”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Northland Region”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Northland”
- Sinhala: “නොර්ට්ලන්ඩ් කලාපය”
- Sinhala: “නෝර්ත්ලන්ඩ් කලාපය, නවසීලන්තය”
- Slovenian: “Northland”
- Slovenian: “NZ-NTL”
- Spanish: “Northland region”
- Spanish: “Northland Regional Council”
- Spanish: “Northland”
- Spanish: “Region de Northland”
- Spanish: “Región de Northland”
- Swedish: “Northland”
- Tamil: “வடக்கு லன்ட் பகுதி”
- Telugu: “నార్త్ లాండ్ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดนอร์ธเลนด์”
- Turkish: “Northland Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Northland”
- Ukrainian: “Нортленд”
- Urdu: “نارتھ لینڈ ریجن”
- Urdu: “نارتھ لینڈ علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Northland”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Northland”
- Western Armenian: “Նորթլենտ”
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