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Waikato

regional council, New Zealand
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Waikato, regional council, northern North Island, New Zealand. It includes the mountainous Coromandel Peninsula and adjacent Hauraki Plains in the northeast; the fertile Waikato River valley in the northwest; the hills, limestone crags, and canyons of King Country in the southwest; and much of the island’s rugged central volcanic plateau and Lake Taupo, the country’s largest lake, in the southeast. The region is bordered by the Tasman Sea to the west and by the South...

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