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.
- 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
Highbury
Quarter
Karori
- Category: locality
- Location: Wellington, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.28455° or 41° 17′ 4″ south
Longitude
174.73877° or 174° 44′ 20″ east
Population
15,700
Elevation
184 metres (604 feet)
Open location code
4VCPPP8Q+5G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Karori from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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Notable Places Nearby
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