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Why is Wellington well known?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Wellington is the Capital city of New Zealand. It has the parliament there which is famous because it is in the shape of a beehive (and it's called the beehive).

It has the National Museum of New Zealand there, called Te Papa.

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