Palmerston North (nzl)

Palmerston North

Palmerston North ranks 4,129th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Rostov, Yaroslavl Oblast, Dachau, Bavaria, and Point Pleasant, New Jersey. The most famous people from Palmerston North are Warren Cole, Kim Min-jung, and Brendon Hartley. Palmerston North has been the birth place of many athletes, and cyclists. Palmerston North is located in New Zealand.

Palmerston North is a city in the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Manawatū-Whanganui region. Located in the eastern Manawatū Plains, the city is near the north bank of the Manawatū River, 35 km (22 mi) from the river's mouth, and 12 km (7 mi) from the end of the Manawatū Gorge, about 140 km (87 mi) north of the capital, Wellington. Palmerston North is the country's eighth-largest urban area, with an urban population of 81,200. The estimated population of Palmerston North city is 90,500. Read more on Wikipedia