Napier
Napier in New Zealand 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 North Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 66,700 residents
- Description: city in the North Island of New Zealand
- Also known as: “Napier City” and “Napier, New Zealand”
Places of Interest
Highlights include McLean Park and National Aquarium of New Zealand.
McLean Park
Stadium
Photo: Ovalise, CC BY-SA 4.0.
McLean Park is a sports ground in Napier, New Zealand. The two main sports played at the ground are cricket and rugby union. It is one of the largest cricket grounds in New Zealand.
National Aquarium of New Zealand
Public aquarium
Photo: ZoofanNZ, Public domain.
The National Aquarium of New Zealand, formerly Napier Aquarium, is a public aquarium on Marine Parade in Napier, New Zealand. It was started in 1957 and moved to its present location in 1976.
Municipal Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Neal Jennings, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Municipal Theatre is a theater building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Onekawa and Marewa.
Onekawa
Suburb
Onekawa is a suburb of the city of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay Region of the eastern North Island of New Zealand. Development of the suburb began in the late 1940s, after the land was acquired from then-Harbour Board.
Marewa
Suburb
Marewa is a suburb of the city of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay Region of New Zealand's eastern North Island. Development of the suburb began in 1934, after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake raised the previously low lying swamp land.
Maraenui
Suburb
Maraenui is a suburb of the city of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's eastern North Island. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "great marae" for Maraenui.
Napier
- Category: locality
- Location: Napier City, Hawke’s Bay, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-39.4902° or 39° 29′ 25″ southLongitude
176.9178° or 176° 55′ 4″ eastPopulation
66,700Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)Named after
Charles James NapierIATA airport code
NPEUnited Nations Location Code
NZ NPEOpen location code
4VGRGW59+W4OpenStreetMap ID
node 56097668OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Napier” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Napier, Nieu-Seeland”
- Afrikaans: “Napier”
- Albanian: “Napier”
- Arabic: “نيبيار”
- Aragonese: “Napier”
- Asturian: “Napier”
- Basque: “Napier”
- Bavarian: “Napier”
- Belarusian: “Нейпір”
- Bengali: “নেপিয়ার”
- Bhojpuri: “नेपियर”
- Bosnian: “Napier”
- Catalan: “Ahuriri”
- Catalan: “Napier City”
- Catalan: “Napier, Nova Zelanda”
- Catalan: “Napier”
- Cebuano: “Napier”
- Chinese: “內皮爾”
- Chinese: “內皮爾市”
- Chinese: “内皮尔”
- Chinese: “内皮尔城”
- Chinese: “納皮爾”
- Chinese: “納皮爾城”
- Chinese: “納皮爾市”
- Chinese: “纳皮尔”
- Croatian: “Napier”
- Czech: “Napier”
- Danish: “Napier”
- Dutch: “Napier”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نيبيار”
- Esperanto: “Napier”
- Estonian: “Napier”
- Faroese: “Napier”
- Finnish: “Napier”
- French: “District de Napier”
- French: “Napier District”
- French: “Napier”
- Galician: “Napier, Nova Zelandia”
- Galician: “Napier”
- Georgian: “ნეიპირი”
- German: “Napier”
- Greek: “Νάπιερ”
- Gujarati: “નેપિઅર”
- Hebrew: “נפייר”
- Hindi: “नेपियर”
- Hungarian: “Napier”
- Icelandic: “Napier”
- Indonesian: “Napier, Selandia Baru”
- Irish: “Ahuriri”
- Irish: “Napier”
- Italian: “Napier”
- Japanese: “ネーピア”
- Japanese: “ネイピア”
- Kalaallisut: “Napier”
- Kannada: “ನೇಪಿಯರ್”
- Korean: “네이피어”
- Latvian: “Napier”
- Latvian: “Napjera”
- Lithuanian: “Neipiras”
- Lithuanian: “Neipyras”
- Low German: “Napier”
- Lower Sorbian: “Napier”
- Luxembourgish: “Napier”
- Macedonian: “Нејпиер”
- Malay: “Napier, New Zealand”
- Malay: “Napier”
- Malayalam: “നേപ്പിയർ”
- Maori: “Ahuriri”
- Maori: “Napier”
- Marathi: “नेपियर”
- Minangkabau: “Napier”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ناپيي”
- Northern Frisian: “Napier”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Napier, New Zealand”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Napier”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Napier på New Zealand”
- Norwegian: “Napier”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Napier”
- Persian: “نیپیر”
- Polish: “Napier”
- Portuguese: “Napier”
- Romanian: “Napier”
- Romansh: “Napier”
- Russian: “Аурири”
- Russian: “Нейпир”
- Scots: “Napier”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Napier, Sealainn Nuadh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Napier”
- Serbian: “Nejpijer”
- Serbian: “Нејпијер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Napier”
- Sinhala: “නේපියර්, නවසීලන්තය”
- Sinhala: “නේපියර්”
- Slovak: “Napier”
- Slovenian: “Napier”
- Spanish: “Napier (Nueva Zelanda)”
- Spanish: “Napier”
- Swahili: “Napier, New Zealand”
- Swedish: “Napier, Nya Zeeland”
- Swedish: “Napier”
- Swiss German: “Napier”
- Tamil: “நேப்பியர், நியூசிலாந்து”
- Tamil: “நேப்பியர்”
- Telugu: “నేపియర్”
- Thai: “เนเพียร์”
- Turkish: “Napier”
- Ukrainian: “Нейпір”
- Upper Sorbian: “Napier”
- Urdu: “نیپئر، نیوزی لینڈ”
- Vietnamese: “Napier, New Zealand”
- Vietnamese: “Napier”
- Volapük: “Napier”
- Welsh: “Napier, Seland Newydd”
- Welsh: “Napier”
- Yue Chinese: “納皮爾”
- “Napier”
- “नेपियर”
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