Wairoa

Wairoa is a city and territorial authority district in New Zealand's North Island. The city is the northernmost in the Hawke's Bay region, and is placed on the northern shore of Hawke Bay on the mouth of the Wairoa River and to the west of Mahia Peninsula. It is 118 kilometres northeast of Napier, and ninety two kilometres southwest of Gisborne. Percentage-smart, it's miles often recognized for being New Zealand's maximum Maori city, with over 62.2 of the populace figuring out themselves as Maori.

At the equal time, it's also the most important metropolis inside the district of Wairoa. The district has been recognized traditionally as 'Te Wairoa'. In retaining with the district's vision of being bilingual by means of 2040, the usage of the word 'Te Wairoa' when relating to the district is progressively growing. Wairoa itself is Māori for "long water", regarding the period of the tranquil river that runs at some point of the metropolis.