This article is about the City of Wellington. For a more general overview, see the main article Wellington.

Wellington City is the area of New Zealand administered by the Wellington City Council, one of several territorial authorities in the Greater Wellington area. Wellington City comprises central Wellington as far north as Tawa, and the adjacent rural areas of Makara and Ohariu.

Wellington attained city status in 1886.

Suburbs

Map of Wellington suburbs

Wellington's 60-odd officially-defined suburbs include the following:

North of the CBD

Churton Park; Johnsonville; Khandallah; Newlands; Ngaio; Ngauranga; Paparangi ; Tawa.

Inner city

Aro Valley; Kelburn; Mount Victoria; Northland; Oriental Bay; Te Aro; Thorndon; Wadestown.

South and west

Brooklyn; Berhampore; Hataitai; Island Bay; Karori; Kilbirnie; Miramar; Newtown; Seatoun; Vogeltown

Educational facilities

Victoria University, Wellington's oldest university has its main campus in the hill suburb of Kelburn overlooking the centre of the city, but also has two major downtown campuses. It was originally established as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand.

The University of New Zealand used to be based at Senate House on Bowen Street until its dissolution in 1961.

There is also a branch of Massey University in Wellington, taking over the former Wellington Polytechnic. The campus is based at the previous national museum (the Dominion Museum) that has been replaced by the Te Papa ("Our Place") Museum. Massey's involvement with Wellington began with the merger with the Wellington Polytechnic School. The University of Otago also has a Wellington connection, as the Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences is a department of that university.

The oldest secondary school in Wellington is Wellington College, and is a nationally recognised school in terms of producing Governors-General, military Generals, business leaders, famous sport players and other leaders.

One of the major secondary schools in Wellington is Wellington High School, with the number of enrolled students hovering around 1200. It is also notable for being the only co-educational school in the central city. Formerly associated with the Polytech as the "Wellington Technical College", it later split.

Wellington Institute of Technology caters to Wellington City and the neighbouring regions of Petone and the Hutt Valley. It is one of the largest Polytechnics in the region and was initially established in 1904.