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Can you locate all 6 states and 2 territories of Australia?
Can you locate all 16 regions of New Zealand?
Can you locate all 47 counties of Kenya?
Can you locate all 21 counties of Sweden?
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A New Zealand region narrows a round down to a stretch of one island, and no more. The district is the tier that names a town: 67 territorial authorities, the city and district councils that run the roads, the rubbish and the signs you read from the car. They range from Auckland, one council for about a third of the country's people, to Kawerau, a mill town a few kilometres across.
The map has all 67 territorial authorities: the cities, the districts and the Chatham Islands Territory. Auckland is a single answer, as it is to the government, although its council is divided into local boards. Each district is placed in the region it mostly lies in, which gives the groups, so the regions game is the place to start and this one is the same map at full resolution. Taupō and Waitomo each cross a regional line, and the map puts them in the Waikato.
The Chatham Islands are 800 kilometres east of the South Island, on the other side of the antimeridian from everything else. The map moves them into the sea off Canterbury and draws a line around them, and they are a group of one.
Ten of the city councils are small enough that their tap area is widened beyond their shape: Hamilton, Tauranga, Napier, Palmerston North, Invercargill, Kawerau and the four cities of the Wellington valley.
Auckland is one council and the answer to one question, although it has 21 local boards. It is the narrow isthmus between two harbours, and the one district in its own region.
Kawerau is a mill town in the Bay of Plenty, and the smallest district on the map by a wide margin. It is wedged between the much larger Whakatāne and Rotorua, which is the way to find it.
The Chatham Islands Territory is not a district at all but a council of its own, far out in the Pacific. On this map it is parked beside Canterbury, behind a line, so the whole country fits on screen.
67 territorial authorities: the city and district councils, Auckland Council, and the Chatham Islands Territory.
Because the local boards are not councils. Auckland Council is the territorial authority, and the 21 boards are part of how it governs.
They are really 800 kilometres east of it, across the antimeridian. Drawing them there would shrink the rest of the country to fit, so the map moves them and marks the move with a line.
A region follows a catchment and a district follows a council, so the two do not always agree. Each district takes the region it overlaps most.
The tier above this one is New Zealand Regions, whose 16 answers are the groups here. For another country at this level, see Japan Prefectures.
