New Plymouth (nzl)

New Plymouth

New Plymouth ranks 5,877th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Indio, California, Napier, New Zealand, and Kretinga. Memorable people born in New Plymouth include Melanie Lynskey, Anthony McCarten, and Beauden Barrett. New Plymouth has been the birth place of many athletes, and actors. New Plymouth is located in New Zealand.

New Plymouth is the major city of the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after the English city of Plymouth, in Devon, from where the first English settlers to New Plymouth migrated. The New Plymouth District, which includes New Plymouth City and several smaller towns, is the 10th largest district in New Zealand, and has a population of 90,000 – about two-thirds of the total population of the Taranaki Region and 1.7% of New Zealand's population. This includes New Plymouth City (60,100), Waitara (7,680), Inglewood (3,960), Ōakura (1,720), Ōkato (561) and Urenui (429). Read more on Wikipedia