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New Zealand: 17 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 17 first-level units down to ADM3, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-NZL-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO NZL / NZStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
17
first-level units
350
units at 3 levels
4,765,259
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

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New Zealand by province, state and territory

17 first-level units and 88 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 17 first-level units of New Zealand
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
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Every administrative level of New Zealand

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
17 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
ADM2
88 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
ADM3
245 third-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
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All 17 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Auckland Region NZ-AUK 1,657,451 1,513,305 4,939 336 34.8% 95,172
Bay of Plenty Region NZ-BOP 242,562 288,842 12,247 20 5.1% 37,064
Canterbury Region NZ-CAN 649,158 659,586 45,140 14 13.6% 154,924
Chatham Islands Territory NZ-CIT 513 796 796 1 0% 59
Gisborne Region NZ-GIS 44,866 51,866 8,350 5 0.9% 9,326
Hawke’s Bay Region NZ-HKB 155,321 163,365 14,155 11 3.3% 45,705
Manawatu-Wanganui Region NZ-MWT 250,007 256,673 22,188 11 5.2% 12,675
Marlborough Region NZ-MBH 48,044 52,223 10,467 5 1% 13,052
Nelson Region NZ-NLS 56,120 52,715 424 132 1.2% 6,016
Northland Region NZ-NTL 147,889 181,974 12,519 12 3.1% 12,499
Otago Region NZ-OTA 188,315 202,723 31,799 6 4% 10,860
Southland Region NZ-STL 104,156 96,908 31,665 3 2.2% 27,004
Taranaki Region NZ-TKI 117,340 113,565 7,252 16 2.5% 3,040
Tasman Region NZ-TAS 44,155 48,193 9,643 5 0.9% 1,686
Waikato Region NZ-WKO 485,157 520,562 24,553 20 10.2% 18,067
Wellington Region NZ-WGN 544,638 518,145 8,109 67 11.4% 35,198
West Coast Region NZ-WTC 29,567 25,201 23,282 1 0.6% 5,773
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Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for New Zealand publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NZL ADM1, source: NZ Stats, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2017
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NZL ADM2, source: Stats NZ, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2021
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NZL ADM3, source: NZ Stats, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2017
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Lande
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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