Wellington City

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This article is about the City of Wellington. For a more general overview, see the main article Wellington.

Territorial Authority
Wellington City

Population:	182,600
Land area:	290km²
Extent:	North to Tawa; includes Makara and Ohariu
Mayor:	Kerry Prendergast
Regional Council:	Greater Wellington Regional Council

Wellington city is the area of New Zealand administered by the Wellington City Council, one of several territorial authorities in the Greater Wellington region. Wellington city extends as far north as Linden, and includes the rural areas of Makara and Ohariu.

Wellington attained city status in 1886.

1 Suburbs
2 Communities of Common Interest
3 Educational facilities
4 Sister city relationships
5 History
- 5.1 External links

[edit] Suburbs

Wellington's 60-odd officially defined suburbs include the following:

[edit] North of the CBD

Churton Park; Johnsonville; Crofton Downs; Kaiwharawhara; Khandallah; Newlands; Ngaio; Ngauranga; Paparangi; Tawa.

[edit] Communities of Common Interest

Courtenay Place; Courtenay Quarter; Cuba Quarter; Lambton Quarter; Thorndon Quarter

Essentially international and domestic tourist destinations created by the Wellington City-funded Positively Wellington Tourism, but also now are communities self-grouped into common interests such as sport, entertainment, arts, architecture, finance, specialist shopping, creative business, archives, museums, performance spaces, etc ref [1]

[edit] Educational facilities

Wellington city looking south with Johnsonville in the foreground

Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington's oldest university, has its main campus in the hill suburb of Kelburn overlooking the centre of the city. It also has two downtown campuses, and a campus in the western suburb of Karori. It was established as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand.

The senate of the University of New Zealand was located in Wellington until its dissolution in 1961.

There is also a branch of Massey University in Wellington, taking over the former Wellington Polytechnic. The campus is based at the former national museum (the Dominion Museum), which has been replaced by the Te Papa ("Our Place") museum. The University of Otago also has a Wellington connection, as the Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences is a department of that university.

Wellington Institute of Technology caters to Wellington and neighbouring Petone and the Hutt Valley. It is one of the largest polytechnics in the region and was established in 1904.

Numerous primary and secondary educational institutions are scattered all over the city.