New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled ...

Wellington has been the capital of New Zealand since 1865. New Zealand's first capital city was Old Russell (Okiato) in 1840–41. Okiato · Auckland · Wellington · 150th anniversary

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William Hobson established Auckland as the capital in 1841 on land offered by Ngāti Whātua. At that time the 'city' of Auckland was little more than a township.

This guide gives a nostalgic vision of what visiting Wellington must have been like for visitors in the late 1930s shortly before World War II.

After the capital was moved to Auckland in 1841, the settlement at Okiato burned to the ground.

New Zealand's capital, Wellington, sits at the southwestern tip of North Island near the Cook Strait. The city in the second largest in New Zealand.

Wellington became New Zealand's capital in 1865, with Parliament officially sitting in the city for the first time on 26 July 1865.

Wellington, capital city, port, and major commercial centre of New Zealand, located in the extreme south of North Island.