Dunedin
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Dunedin Ōtepoti |
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| City of Dunedin | |||
View across the University of Otago campus in April 2011
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| Nickname(s): Edinburgh of the South; Dunners (colloquial) |
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 Dunedin
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| Coordinates: 45°52′S 170°30′E / 45.867°S 170.500°E | |||
| Country | New Zealand | ||
| Region | Otago | ||
| Territorial authority | Dunedin City Council | ||
| Settled by Māori | c. 1300 | ||
| Settled by Europeans | 1848 | ||
| Incorporated | 1855 | ||
| Named for | Dùn Èideann – Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh | ||
| Electorates | Dunedin North Dunedin South |
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| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Dave Cull | ||
| • Deputy Mayor | Chris Staynes | ||
| Area | |||
| • Territorial | 3,314 km2 (1,280 sq mi) | ||
| • Urban | 255 km2 (98 sq mi) | ||
| Population (June 2016) | |||
| • Territorial | 127,000 | ||
| • Density | 38/km2 (99/sq mi) | ||
| • Urban | 118,500 | ||
| • Urban density | 460/km2 (1,200/sq mi) | ||
| Demonym(s) | Dunedinite | ||
| Time zone | NZST (UTC+12) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | NZDT (UTC+13) | ||
| Postcode | 9010, 9011, 9012, 9013, 9014, 9016, 9018, 9022, 9023, 9024, 9035, 9076, 9077, 9081, 9082, 9092 | ||
| Area code(s) | 03 | ||
| Website | www.DunedinNZ.com | ||
| Largest groups of overseas-born residents | |
| Nationality | Population (2013) |
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 United Kingdom
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7,140 |
 Australia
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2,094 |
 China
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1,422 |
 United States
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924 |
 South Africa
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750 |
 Malaysia
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621 |
 India
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603 |
 Netherlands
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576 |
 South Korea
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531 |
 Germany
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483 |
Dunedin (
i/dʌˈniːdᵻn/ dun-EE-din; Māori: Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago region. It is named for the capital of Scotland, generally Anglicised as Edinburgh (with burgh being a literal translation of the Gaelic dun, meaning fort). While Tauranga, Napier-Hastings and Hamilton have eclipsed the city in size of population since the 1980s to make it only the seventh-largest urban area in New Zealand, Dunedin is still considered one of the four main cities of New Zealand for historic, cultural and geographic reasons.
Dunedin was the largest New Zealand city by territorial land area until superseded by Auckland on the creation of the Auckland Council in November 2010. Dunedin was the largest city in New Zealand by population from the 1860s until about 1900. The city population at 5 March 2013 was 120,246. The Dunedin urban area lies on the central-eastern coast of Otago, surrounding the head of Otago Harbour. The harbour and hills around Dunedin represent the remnants of an extinct volcano. The city suburbs extend out into the surrounding valleys and hills, onto the isthmus of the Otago Peninsula, and along the shores of the Otago Harbour and the Pacific Ocean.
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