Te Papapa
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Suburb: | Te Papapa |
City: | Auckland |
Island: | North Island |
Surrounded by - to the north |
Penrose (1322 m) Mount Wellington (2.5 km) |
Te Papapa is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. It is located nine kilometres to the southeast of the city centre, on the northern shore of the Mangere Inlet, an arm of the Manukau Harbour. The suburb's population of 3081 (2001 census) has a high proportion of Pacific Island residents (28%).
The residential and light-industrial suburb lies between the suburbs of Onehunga, Penrose, and Southdown, and is at the northern end of the Mangere Bridge which connects it with the suburb of Mangere in Manukau City.