Te Aro
Te Aro is an inner-city suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. It comprises the southern part of the central business district including the majority of the city's entertainment district and covers the mostly flat area of city between The Terrace and Cambridge Terrace at the base of Mount Victoria.Photo: Frozen-Coke-Rocks, Public domain.
- Type: Suburb with 15,000 residents
- Description: inner-city suburb of Wellington, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Te Aro Flat”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum of New Zealand and Wellington Opera House.
Museum of New Zealand
Museum
Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington. Usually known as Te Papa, it opened in 1998 after the merging of the National Museum of New Zealand and the National Art Gallery.
Wellington Opera House
Theater building
Photo: Quilt Phase, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Wellington Opera House is a proscenium theatre in Wellington, New Zealand, located on Manners Street opposite Te Aro Park.
St. James Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Bruce.staples, Public domain.
The St. James Theatre is a large proscenium stage theatre in central Wellington, New Zealand, and home to the Royal New Zealand Ballet. The building was designed in 1912 by New Zealand-born theatre designer Henry Eli White.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mount Victoria and Mount Cook.
Mount Victoria
Suburb
Photo: Jack Magnus McDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Victoria is a suburb of central Wellington, New Zealand, named after the 196 metres hill Mount Victoria to the east. Mount Victoria's residential area is on its north-western slopes.
Mount Cook
Suburb
Photo: Pakoire, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Cook is an inner city suburb of New Zealand's capital city of Wellington, The North Island, New Zealand, 1.74km dead south of Wellington's Central Business District.
Aro Valley
Suburb
Photo: Silenceisfoo, Public domain.
The Aro Valley forms a small inner-city suburb of Wellington in New Zealand. It takes its name from the stream which originally flowed where modern Hōniana Te Puni Street is.
Te Aro
- Category: locality
- Location: Wellington, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.29254° or 41° 17′ 33″ southLongitude
174.77892° or 174° 46′ 44″ eastPopulation
15,000Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)Open location code
4VCPPQ4H+XHOpenStreetMap ID
node 267985834OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
10173827Wikidata ID
Q7690766
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Turkish—“Te Aro” goes by many names.
- French: “Te Aro”
- Japanese: “テ・アロ”
- Russian: “Те Аро”
- Turkish: “Te Aro”
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