Karori
Karori is a suburb located at the western edge of the urban area of Wellington, New Zealand, 4 kilometres from the city centre and is one of New Zealand's most populous suburbs, with a population of 15,100 in June 2025.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 15,700 residents
- Description: suburb of Wellington, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Karori, New Zealand” and “Karori, Wellington”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karori Library and Futuna Chapel.
Futuna Chapel
Church
Futuna Chapel is a building in Wellington, New Zealand designed by the architect John Scott. Built by the brothers of the Society of Mary, the chapel is named after the Pacific Island of Futuna on which the missionary Peter Chanel, to whom the project is dedicated, was martyred in 1841.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karori West and Northland.
Northland
Suburb
Photo: Pakoire, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Northland is a suburb in west-central Wellington, New Zealand. It borders the suburbs of Highbury, Kelburn, Thorndon, Wilton, Wadestown and Karori. Northland is populated by a mix of university students, young professionals and families.
Highbury
Quarter
Photo: Pakoire, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Highbury is a suburb of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, under the governance of Wellington City Council. Highbury is located west of Brooklyn and Aro Valley.
Karori
- Category: locality
- Location: Wellington, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.28455° or 41° 17′ 4″ southLongitude
174.73877° or 174° 44′ 20″ eastPopulation
15,700Elevation
184 metres (604 feet)Open location code
4VCPPP8Q+5GOpenStreetMap ID
node 783566714OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2189028Wikidata ID
Q15233920
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Karori” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Karori”
- Aragonese: “Karori”
- Armenian: “Կառորի”
- Arpitan: “Karori”
- Asturian: “Karori”
- Bambara: “Karori”
- Basque: “Karori”
- Bavarian: “Karori”
- Breton: “Karori”
- Cajun French: “Karori”
- Catalan: “Karori”
- Chinese: “卡罗里”
- Corsican: “Karori”
- Croatian: “Karori”
- Czech: “Karori”
- Danish: “Karori”
- Dutch: “Karori”
- Esperanto: “Karori”
- Estonian: “Karori”
- Finnish: “Karori”
- French: “Karori”
- Friulian: “Karori”
- Galician: “Karori”
- German: “Karori”
- Hungarian: “Karori”
- Ido: “Karori”
- Indonesian: “Karori”
- Interlingua: “Karori”
- Interlingue: “Karori”
- Irish: “Karori”
- Italian: “Karori”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Karori”
- Japanese: “カロリ”
- Kabyle: “Karori”
- Kongo: “Karori”
- Ligurian: “Karori”
- Limburgan: “Karori”
- Lithuanian: “Karori”
- Low German: “Karori”
- Luxembourgish: “Karori”
- Mainfränkisch: “Karori”
- Malagasy: “Karori”
- Malay: “Karori”
- Maori: “Karori”
- Minangkabau: “Karori”
- Narom: “Karori”
- Neapolitan: “Karori”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karori”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karori”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Karori”
- Papiamento: “Karori”
- Picard: “Karori”
- Piemontese: “Karori”
- Polish: “Karori”
- Portuguese: “Karori”
- Prussian: “Karori”
- Romagnol: “Karori”
- Romanian: “Karori”
- Romansh: “Karori”
- Sardinian: “Karori”
- Scots: “Karori”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Karori”
- Serbian: “Karori”
- Sicilian: “Karori”
- Slovak: “Karori”
- Spanish: “Karori (Wellington)”
- Spanish: “Karori”
- Swahili: “Karori”
- Swedish: “Karori”
- Swiss German: “Karori”
- Turkish: “Karori”
- Venetian: “Karori”
- Vietnamese: “Karori”
- Vlaams: “Karori”
- Volapük: “Karori”
- Walloon: “Karori”
- Welsh: “Karori”
- Wolof: “Karori”
- Zulu: “Karori”
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