Kaiapoi
Kaiapoi is a town just north of Christchurch on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It lies 17 km from central Christchurch, and north of the Waimakariri River. The town is a separate community, but also a commuter suburb of its city neighbour.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Schwede66, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Schwede66, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Kaiapoi Memorial Reserve and Kaiapoi High School.
Kaiapoi High School
School
Kaiapoi High School is a state co-educational secondary school located in Kaiapoi, in the Waimakariri District of New Zealand's South Island. The school serves 1040 students from Years 9 to 13 as of July 2025.
Cam River
River
Photo: Turnagra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cam River / Ruataniwha is a small river in Canterbury in the South Island of New Zealand. It is a tributary of the Kaiapoi River, itself a tributary of the Waimakariri River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Clarkville and Kainga.
Clarkville
Hamlet
Clarkville is a small rural town in the Waimakariri District, New Zealand. As of June 2024, Clarkville had a population of 1,550.
Kainga
Village
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Kainga is a settlement on the southern bank of the Waimakariri River, just north of Christchurch, in Canterbury, New Zealand. It lies immediately to the south of Kaiapoi, on a small road leading northeast from State Highway 1.
Flaxton
Hamlet
Flaxton is a small rural community in between the towns of Rangiora and Kaiapoi in the Waimakariri District, New Zealand. Flaxton is situated 4 km northwest of Kaiapoi.
Kaiapoi
- Type: Town with 13,100 residents
- Description: town in New Zealand
- Category: locality
- Location: Waimakariri District, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-43.3832° or 43° 22′ 59″ southLongitude
172.6522° or 172° 39′ 8″ eastPopulation
13,100Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)United Nations Location Code
NZ KAPOpen location code
4V8JJM82+PVOpenStreetMap ID
node 176015564OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Kaiapoi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كايابوي”
- Armenian: “Կաիապոի”
- Asturian: “Kaiapoi”
- Bulgarian: “Каиапои”
- Catalan: “Kaiapoi”
- Cebuano: “Kaiapoi”
- Chinese: “凯阿波伊”
- Dutch: “Kaiapoi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كايابوى”
- Finnish: “Kaiapoi”
- French: “Kaiapoi”
- Georgian: “კაიაპოი”
- German: “Kaiapoi”
- Italian: “Kaiapoi”
- Japanese: “カイアポイ”
- Malay: “Kaiapoi”
- Polish: “Kaiapoi”
- Portuguese: “Kaiapoi”
- Russian: “Каиапои”
- Spanish: “Kaiapoi”
- Swedish: “Kaiapoi”
- Turkish: “Kaiapoi”
- Urdu: “کیاپوئی”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Kaiapoi”. Photo: Schwede66, CC BY-SA 4.0.