Manukau City

Manukau City is a former territorial authority district in Auckland, New Zealand, which was governed by the Manukau City Council. The district is sometimes referred to as "South Auckland", although this term did not possess official recognition and did not encompass areas like East Auckland, which was within the official boundaries of the district. Manukau City was a relatively young city, both in terms of legal status and large-scale settlement – though with a current size of 375,600 inhabitants (June 2012 estimate), it was also the third-largest in New Zealand as well as the country's fastest-growing. The city council existed from 1989 to 2010, when the entire Auckland Region was amalgamated under a single city authority, Auckland Council.

The name Manukau, from the Manukau Harbour west of the city, is of Māori origin, and means 'wading birds', although it has been suggested that the name of the harbour was also sometimes rendered as Mānuka, meaning a marker post with which an early chief is said to have claimed the area.