Ngāruawāhia
Ngāruawāhia is a town in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located 20 kilometres north-west of Hamilton at the confluence of the Waikato and Waipā Rivers, adjacent to the Hakarimata Range.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,930 residents
- Description: town in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Newcastle”, “Ngaruawahia”, and “Queenstown”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ngaruawahia High School and Hakarimata.
Ngaruawahia High School
School
Ngaruawahia High School is a state co-educational school situated in Ngāruawāhia, New Zealand. The school was opened in 1963 and the current principal is Rebecca Hodgson.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Horotiu and Taupiri.
Horotiu
Village
Horotiu is a small township on the west bank of the Waikato River in the Waikato District of New Zealand. It is on the Waikato Plains 13 km north of Hamilton and 5 km south of Ngāruawāhia. Horotiu is situated 5 km southeast of Ngāruawāhia.
Taupiri
Village
Photo: Johnragla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Taupiri is a small town of about 500 people on the eastern bank of the Waikato River in the Waikato District of New Zealand. It is overlooked by Taupiri mountain, the sacred burial ground for the Waikato tribes of the Māori people, located just to the north. Taupiri is situated 7 km northeast of Ngāruawāhia.
Glen Massey
Hamlet
Photo: Johnragla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Glen Massey is a former mining village, 9.5 km west of Ngāruawāhia, which was, until 1958, terminus of the Glen Massey Line. It then went into decline, but is now becoming a home for Hamilton commuters. Glen Massey is situated 7 km west of Ngāruawāhia.
Ngāruawāhia
- Category: locality
- Location: Waikato District, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.66627° or 37° 39′ 59″ southLongitude
175.15005° or 175° 9′ 0″ eastPopulation
7,930Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)Open location code
4VJQ85M2+F2OpenStreetMap ID
node 60729034OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6247826Wikidata ID
Q771298
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Ngāruawāhia” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ngāruawāhia”
- Catalan: “Ngāruawāhia”
- Cebuano: “Ngaruawahia”
- Danish: “Ngāruawāhia”
- Dutch: “Ngaruawahia”
- French: “Ngaruawahia”
- German: “Ngaruawahia”
- German: “Ngāruawāhia”
- Hungarian: “Ngaruawahia”
- Indonesian: “Ngaruawahia”
- Japanese: “ナルワヒャ”
- Japanese: “ンガルアワヒア”
- Malay: “Ngaruawahia”
- Maori: “Ngāruawāhia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ngaruawahia”
- Polish: “Ngaruawahia”
- Polish: “Ngāruawāhia”
- Russian: “Нгаруавахиа”
- Spanish: “Ngāruawāhia”
- Swedish: “Ngaruawahia”
- Turkish: “Ngāruawāhia”
- Urdu: “نگاروواہیا”
- Welsh: “Ngaruawahia”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Hopuhopu and Kainui.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Holy Trinity Church / The Parish of Holy Trinity - Ngaruawahia and Ngāruawāhia Police Station.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ngāruawāhia”. Photo: Honet, CC BY-SA 3.0.