Matamata
Matamata is a town in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is one of the main departure points for the Hobbiton Movie Set, which is out in the countryside.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: missrogue, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Firth School and Matamata College.
Firth School
School
Matamata is a town in Waikato, New Zealand. It is located near the base of the Kaimai Ranges, and is a thriving farming area known for Thoroughbred horse breeding and training pursuits.
Matamata College
School
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Matamata College is a co-educational state secondary school located in Matamata, New Zealand.
Matamata
- Type: Town with 8,570 residents
- Description: town in New Zealand
- Category: locality
- Location: Matamata-Piako District, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.8096° or 37° 48′ 34″ southLongitude
175.7733° or 175° 46′ 24″ eastPopulation
8,570Elevation
67 metres (220 feet)IATA airport code
MTAUnited Nations Location Code
NZ MTAOpen location code
4VJQ5QRF+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 804395405OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6235764Wikidata ID
Q691739
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Matamata” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مطماطة”
- Arabic: “مطماطه (نيوزيلندا)”
- Aragonese: “Matamata”
- Asturian: “Matamata”
- Basque: “Matamata”
- Bavarian: “Matamata”
- Catalan: “Matamata”
- Cebuano: “Matamata”
- Chinese: “馬塔馬塔”
- Dutch: “Matamata”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مطماطه”
- Estonian: “Matamata”
- Finnish: “Matamata (kaupunki)”
- Finnish: “Matamata”
- French: “Matamata”
- German: “Matamata”
- Hebrew: “מטמטה”
- Italian: “Matamata”
- Japanese: “マタマタ、ニュージーランド”
- Japanese: “マタマタ”
- Kazakh: “Матамата”
- Malay: “Matamata”
- Maori: “Matamata”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Matamata”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Matamata”
- Norwegian: “Matamata”
- Polish: “Matamata”
- Russian: “Матамата”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Matamata”
- Serbian: “Matamata”
- Serbian: “Матамата”
- Spanish: “Matamata”
- Swedish: “Matamata”
- Turkish: “Matamata”
- Urdu: “ماتمتا”
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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 “Matamata”. Photo: missrogue, CC BY-SA 2.0.