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Hawke’s Bay

Hawke's Bay is a region on the east coast of the of . The population centre is on the Heretaunga Plains, consisting of the twin cities of Napier and Hastings and satellite towns.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Napier and Hastings.

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in is the most consistently Art Deco city in the world, due to being largely rebuilt in the 1930s following a devastating earthquake in 1931. It is in Hawke's Bay, on the sunny east coast of the .

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is a city in Hawke's Bay, on the east coast of the North Island of . It is one of two cities in Hawke's Bay, the other being nearby .

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is a town in the southern Hawke's Bay region, in the eastern of .

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is the largest town in the District and the northernmost town in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's . It is located on the northern shore of at the mouth of the and to the west of .

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is a suburb of , in the Hawke's Bay region on the east coast of 's North Island. It's 10 km southwest of the Napier city centre and is also known as the and Greenmeadows area.

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is the largest town, with a population of 4,100, in the Central Hawke's Bay District on the east coast of the of .

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is a town in the Hawke's Bay region on the east coast of 's North Island, very close to the larger city of .

is a satellite suburb of city in the Hawke's Bay region of .

is a locality in southern Hawke's Bay on the east coast of 's North Island. It has a population of about 200.

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is a locality at the base of the Mahia Peninsula in northern Hawke's Bay, on the of , and is known for its hot springs.
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Hawke’s Bay

Latitude of center
-39.6667° or 39° 40′ south
Longitude of center
176.5° or 176° 30′ east
Population
181,000
Elevation
287 metres (942 feet)
Geo­Names ID
2190146
Wiki­data ID
Q251825
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Hawke’s Bay” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إقليم هاوكس باي”
  • Aragonese: “Rechión d’a Badía de Hawke”
  • Armenian: “Հոքս Բեյ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xoks-Bey”
  • Balinese: “Wawengkon Celuk Hawke”
  • Basque: “Hawke’s Bay eskualdea”
  • Basque: “Hawkes Bay eskualdea”
  • Bengali: “হাকেস বে অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Хоукс Бей”
  • Catalan: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Catalan: “Hawkes Bay”
  • Cebuano: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Chinese: “Hawke’s Bay Tōa-khu”
  • Chinese: “豪克斯湾”
  • Chinese: “豪克斯灣”
  • Chinese: “豪克斯灣地區”
  • Chinese: “霍克斯灣”
  • Chinese: “霍克湾地区”
  • Chinese: “霍克湾大区”
  • Croatian: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Czech: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Danish: “Hawke’s Bay Region”
  • Dutch: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Esperanto: “Hawke’s Bay Regiono”
  • Esperanto: “regiono Hawke’s Bay”
  • Esperanto: “Regiono Hawke’s Bay”
  • Esperanto: “Te Matau-a-Māui”
  • Estonian: “Hawke’s Bay piirkond”
  • Finnish: “Hawke’s Bayn maakunta”
  • French: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • French: “Te Matau-a-Māui”
  • Georgian: “ჰოკს-ბეი”
  • Georgian: “ჰოკს-ბეის რეგიონი”
  • German: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • German: “NZ-HKB”
  • German: “Te Matau-a-Māui”
  • Greek: “Xοκ’ς Μπέι”
  • Greek: “Xοκς Μπέι”
  • Gujarati: “હૉક્સ બે પ્રાંત”
  • Hebrew: “הוקס ביי”
  • Hindi: “हॉक्स बे क्षेत्र”
  • Indonesian: “Wilayah Hawke’s Bay”
  • Italian: “Baia di Hawke”
  • Italian: “Hawke Bay”
  • Italian: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Italian: “Te Matau-a-Māui”
  • Japanese: “ホークス・ベイ地方”
  • Japanese: “ホークスベイ”
  • Japanese: “ホークスベイ地方”
  • Kannada: “ಹಾಕ್ಸ್ ಬೇ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Korean: “호크스 베이”
  • Korean: “호크스베이 지방”
  • Korean: “호크스베이”
  • Latvian: “Hoksbeja”
  • Latvian: “Hoksbejas reģions”
  • Lithuanian: “Hoko įlankos regionas”
  • Lithuanian: “Houkis Bėjaus regionas”
  • Macedonian: “Хоков Залив”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Hawke’s Bay”
  • Maori: “Heretaunga, takiwā”
  • Maori: “Heretaunga”
  • Maori: “Te Matau-a-Māui[”
  • Maori: “Te Matau-a-Māui”
  • Marathi: “हॉकस बे प्रदेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hawke’s Bay Tōa-khu”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جيهة خليج هاوك”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hawkes Bay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Norwegian: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Polish: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Portuguese: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Portuguese: “Te Matau-a-Māui”
  • Romanian: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Russian: “Хокс Бэй”
  • Russian: “Хокс-Бей”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hawke’s Bay Region”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Sinhala: “හොකෙස් කලපු කලාපය”
  • Sinhala: “හොකෙස් බේ කලාපය, නවසීලන්තය”
  • Slovenian: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Slovenian: “NZ-HKB”
  • Spanish: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Spanish: “Hawkes Bay”
  • Spanish: “Región de Hawke’s Bay”
  • Spanish: “Te Matau-a-Māui”
  • Swedish: “Hawke’s Bay Region”
  • Swedish: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Tamil: “ஹவ்க்கி ‘ஸ் பே பகுதி”
  • Telugu: “హాక్స్ బే ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “ฮอว์ค เบย์”
  • Turkish: “Hawke Limano Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Ukrainian: “Гокс-Бей”
  • Urdu: “ہاکس بے ریجن”
  • Urdu: “ہاکس بے علاقہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Hawke’s Bay”
  • Welsh: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • Welsh: “Te Matau-a-Māui”
  • Western Armenian: “Հոքսի Ծոց”
  • Zeeuws: “Hawke’s Bay”
  • “Hawke’s Bay”
  • “Te Matau-a-Māui”

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