Population
Population: June 2009 estimate 93,500
Southland's largest urban centre is Invercargill, a city of 49,000 people. Visitors come to admire the elegant Victorian and Edwardian buildings, gardens and landscaped parks. As in Dunedin to the north, Invercargill was originally settled by people from Scotland. Southland's other principal urban settlement is the town of Gore. Southland covers an area of 28,681 square kilometres. In the June 2009 estimate it had a population of 93,500, making it one of New Zealand's most sparsely populated areas. The western part, Fiordland, is almost without any permanent human habitation. The unemployment rate in Southland Region was 5.3 percent, compared with 7.5 percent for all of New Zealand and 93.4 percent of people in Southland belong to the European ethnic group, compared with 80.1 percent for all of New Zealand.
Land area: 30,400.94 km² (11,737.87 sq mi).
Main Centres: Invercargill, Gore, Bluff, Stewart Island, Winton, Riverton, Lumsden, Te Anau
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