Taipa-Mangonui or Taipa Bay-Mangonui refers to the string of small resort settlements Taipa, Cable Bay, Coopers Beach, and Mangonui which lie along the coast of Doubtless Bay - and are so close together that they have run together to form one larger settlement. The area had a combined population in 2013 of 1662.The miniature conurbation lies 150 kilometres by road northwest of Whangarei , and 20 kilometres northeast of Kaitaia. It is thus the northernmost centre in New Zealand with a population of above 1000, even though it is nearly 100 kilometres southeast of the northernmost tip of the North Island.
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