Levin, New Zealand

Levin is a town on the North Island of New Zealand. It is located around 85 kilometers north of Wellington, about 50 kilometers south of Palmerston North and is the administrative center for the Horowhenua District. This lies in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region.

In 2003, about 19,500 people lived in Levin, of which a very high percentage of New Zealand for more than 20 % is older than 65 years.

The village was named after a director of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company. From the former importance of the railway still shows the Tokomaru Steam Engine Museum. The railway has still some importance, since Levin a stop on the - but only once trains running a day - passenger connection from Palmerston North to Wellington, the Capital Connection is.

In the urban area there are two branches of the University of Wellington and two colleges, the Waiopehu and Horowhenua College.

The city is located in a fertile plain on the western slopes of the Tararua Range, a parallel to the coastline mountain range. East of the town the land rises to the Tararua Range on relatively steep, about 10 kilometers southeast of the town is the Mount Duncas at 1500 meters above sea level one of the major mountains of the mountain ridge.

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