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Palmerston North

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Country: New Zealand

Population:75,997

Time Zone:UTC+14

Palmerston North serves as the seat of New Zealand’s Manawatū-Whanganui region and ranks as the country’s eighth-largest urban area. The city spreads across the eastern Manawatū Plains near the Manawatū River, around 140 km north of Wellington, with the river’s mouth and the Manawatū Gorge also close by. Its urban population is 81,200, while the wider city population is estimated at 90,500.