Napier-Hastings Urban Area
| Napier-Hastings Urban Area | |
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 Napier-Hastings Urban Area
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| Coordinates: 39°35′0″S 176°51′0″E / 39.58333°S 176.85000°E | |
| Country |
 New Zealand
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| Region | Hawke's Bay |
| Area | |
| • Territorial | 5,335 km2 (2,060 sq mi) |
| Population (June 2016) | |
| • Territorial | 139,600 |
| • Density | 26/km2 (68/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 131,000 |
| Postcodes | 4120, 4122 |
The Napier-Hastings Urban Area lies mostly on the Heretaunga Plains of the Hawke's Bay Region in New Zealand and is a conurbation surrounding the twin cities of Napier and Hastings. It is the sixth most populous urban area in the country, with 131,000 residents, just slightly fewer than Tauranga (134,400).
While the two cities remain separated by 9 km (5.6 mi) of rural land from city edge to edge (20 km from one city centre to the next), there is sufficient economic and social integration between the cities for Statistics New Zealand to aggregate them into a single unit. However, like the urban areas of Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington, the Napier-Hastings urban area is subdivided into urban zones. The urban area contains around three-quarters of the population of the entire Hawke's Bay.
If Hastings and Napier were to amalgamate they would become the sixth most populous city in New Zealand following Tauranga.
Hastings CBD
Hawke's Bay is one of the most seismically active regions in New Zealand, and as so Napier-Hastings has experienced many large and often damaging earthquakes in the past. More than 50 damaging earthquakes have rocked the area since the European colonisation in the 1800s. Some of the more notable are listed below.
Napier-Hastings offers a variety of colleges and tertiary studies for students. The Eastern Institute of Technology, commonly abbreviated to EIT or EIT HB is located along the banks of the Tutaekuri River and offers many different courses for students both in and out of the region. EIT serves as the main regional tertiary education centre for both Hawke's Bay and Gisborne regions. There are 3 campuses: Hawke's Bay, Auckland and Gisborne.
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