Otara

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Suburb:Otara

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City:Manukau

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Island:North Island

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 - to the east

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 - to the south

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 - to the west

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Tamaki River

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East Tamaki

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Manukau CBD

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Middlemore, Otahuhu

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Otara is a suburb of Manukau city, one of the cities which make up the Auckland conurbation in the North Island of New Zealand. It is sited close to the head of the Tamaki River, actually an arm of the Hauraki Gulf which extends south towards the Manukau Harbour.

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Otara is surrounded by the suburbs of Otahuhu, Middlemore, Papatoetoe, Flat Bush, and East Tamaki, 18 kilometres to the southeast of Auckland city centre. The suburb is unusual for its proportion of Pacific Island residents, who make up more than half of its population, and its exceptially low number of European residents.

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The suburb achieved a mild degree of worldwide fame with the one-off hit single How Bizarre, by hip-hop artists OMC. "OMC" stands for "Otara Millionaires' Club" - a tongue-in-cheek reference to the low socio-economic status of much of the suburb, Otara being one of the poorest parts of the Auckland region.

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Conurbation: A conurbation is an urban area comprising a number of cities or towns which, through population growth and expansion, have physically merged to form one continuous built up area. It is thus a polycentric form of agglomeration....

North Island: The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island....

Tamaki River: The Tamaki River, despite its name, is actually an estuarial arm of the Hauraki Gulf, close to the city of Auckland in New Zealand. It extends south for 15 kilometres from its mouth between the Auckland suburb of Saint Heliers and the long thin peninsula of Bucklands Beach, which reaches its end at ...