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Only 1.66 million people live in Auckland, New Zealand’s biggest city, and its population density is less than one twentieth of America’s biggest urban center, New York City.

The majority of New Zealand's population is concentrated in the north island, with nearly one-third living in Auckland alone. But low density and scattered populations make for peaceful ...

A new study suggests that the flightless birds named moa were completely extinct by the time New Zealand's human population had grown to two and half thousand people at most.

At historically reasonable population growth rates, we show that, starting from a genetically estimated founding population of 400 individuals, the Polynesian population of New Zealand during the ...