You can try geonames: go to <a href="http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/">http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/</a> and download NZ.zip.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:webwiz@pl.net">webwiz@pl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">If i wanted to make a list of towns with their population, region and district, for New Zealand, where would i start. So far ive found these, but all are going to take lots of cleaning up.<br>

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Cheers.<br>
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P.<br>
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Theres a list of electoral ward/district/population:<br>
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<a href="http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/population/estimates_and_projections/subnational-pop-estimates-tables.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/population/estimates_and_projections/subnational-pop-estimates-tables.aspx</a><br>

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Local authoritys<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_Authorities_of_New_Zealand" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_Authorities_of_New_Zealand</a><br>
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Towns<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_New_Zealand" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_New_Zealand</a><br>
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Stats Meshblocks<br>
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<a href="http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2006CensusHomePage/MeshblockDataset.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2006CensusHomePage/MeshblockDataset.aspx</a><br>
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