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Napier Houses on a ridge in Napier, North Island, N.Z.

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Napier, city and port, eastern North Island, New Zealand, on the southwestern shore of Hawke Bay. Laid out in 1856, the town was named for Sir Charles Napier, a 19th-century British military commander in India. It was made a borough in 1874 and a city in 1950. Napier, on a small headland known as Napier Hill, is linked to Wellington (about 200 miles [320 km] southwest) by rail and road. It serves an agricultural and...

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