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Nelson

Nelson is the second oldest settled city in and the oldest in the . It is in a region often known as or the "Top of the South" and is actually slightly north of the capital city of in the .
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  • Type: City with 51,100 residents
  • Description: city on the South Island, New Zealand
  • Also known as: “Nelson City”, “Nelson, New Zealand”, and “Whakatu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Trafalgar Park and Theatre Royal.

Stadium
Photo: Lazioman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a sports ground located beside the Central Business District of Nelson, in New Zealand's . The stadium has a capacity of 18,000, following upgrades completed for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

Theater building
Photo: Schwede66, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a theater building.

Museum
Photo: Mike Dickison, CC0.
The , Pupuri Taonga O Te Tai Ao is a regional museum in the city of Nelson, . The museum showcases the Nelson and Tasman regions' history, from geological origins to the stories of individuals and families.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Toi Toi and The Wood.

Suburb
is an inner suburb of Nelson, New Zealand. It lies to the southwest of Nelson city centre, inland from and .

Suburb
is a suburb of Nelson, New Zealand. It lies just to the north-east of the city centre and adjoins it. The suburb incorporates Botanical Reserve, a section of Nelson's town belt that includes the trigonometrical geographic centre of New Zealand, Botanical Hill.

Suburb
is a major inner suburb of Nelson, New Zealand. It lies to the west of Nelson city centre and south of and . The equivalent Statistics New Zealand statistical area of Washington covers a land area of 1.12 km2.

Nelson

Latitude
-41.2711° or 41° 16′ 16″ south
Longitude
173.2837° or 173° 17′ 1″ east
Population
51,100
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Named after
Horatio Nelson
IATA airport code
NSN
Open location code
4VCMP7HM+HF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 53190047
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2186280
Wiki­data ID
Q206687
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Nelson” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nelson, Nieu-Seeland”
  • Afrikaans: “Nelson”
  • Arabic: “نيلسون”
  • Aragonese: “Nelson”
  • Armenian: “Նելսոն”
  • Asturian: “Nelson”
  • Basque: “Nelson (Zeelanda Berria)”
  • Basque: “Nelson eskualdea”
  • Basque: “Nelson”
  • Belarusian: “Нельсан, Новая Зеландыя”
  • Belarusian: “Нельсан”
  • Bengali: “নেলসন”
  • Bhojpuri: “नेल्सन”
  • Bulgarian: “Нелсън”
  • Catalan: “Nelson, Nova Zelanda”
  • Catalan: “Nelson”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Nelson”
  • Cebuano: “Nelson (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Nelson”
  • Chinese: “奶路臣”
  • Chinese: “尼尔逊”
  • Chinese: “尼爾森”
  • Chinese: “尼爾遜”
  • Chinese: “納爾遜”
  • Chinese: “纳尔逊”
  • Czech: “Nelson”
  • Danish: “Nelson”
  • Dutch: “Nelson”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه نيلسون”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيلسون”
  • Esperanto: “Nelson”
  • Estonian: “Nelson (Uus-Meremaa)”
  • Estonian: “Nelson”
  • Finnish: “Nelson”
  • French: “District de Nelson”
  • French: “Nelson District”
  • French: “Nelson”
  • Galician: “Nelson, Nova Zelandia”
  • Galician: “Nelson”
  • Georgian: “ნელსონი”
  • German: “Nelson”
  • German: “NZ-NSN”
  • Greek: “Νέλσον”
  • Gujarati: “નેલ્સન”
  • Hebrew: “נלסון”
  • Hindi: “Whakatū”
  • Hindi: “नेल्सन, न्यूज़ीलैण्ड”
  • Hindi: “नेल्सन”
  • Hungarian: “Nelson”
  • Indonesian: “Nelson, Selandia Baru”
  • Irish: “Nelson, An Nua-Shéalainn”
  • Irish: “Nelson”
  • Irish: “Whakatū”
  • Italian: “Nelson”
  • Japanese: “ネルソン”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nelson”
  • Kannada: “ನೆಲ್ಸನ್”
  • Korean: “넬슨”
  • Latvian: “Nelsona”
  • Lithuanian: “Nelsonas”
  • Macedonian: “Нелсон”
  • Malay: “Nelson, New Zealand”
  • Malay: “Nelson”
  • Malayalam: “നെൽസൺ, ന്യൂസിലൻഡ്”
  • Malayalam: “നെൽസൺ”
  • Maori: “Nelson”
  • Maori: “Whakatū”
  • Marathi: “नेल्सन”
  • Mongolian: “Нелсон, Шинэ Зеланд”
  • Mongolian: “Нелсон”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نيلصون”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nelson”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nelson på New Zealand”
  • Norwegian: “Nelson”
  • Persian: “نلسون، نیوزلند”
  • Persian: “نلسون، نیوزیلند”
  • Polish: “Nelson”
  • Portuguese: “Nelson”
  • Romanian: “Nelson”
  • Russian: “Нельсон”
  • Scots: “Nelson, New Zealand”
  • Scots: “Nelson”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nelson Region”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nelson, Sealainn Nuadh”
  • Serbian: “Nelson”
  • Serbian: “Нелсон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nelson”
  • Silesian: “Nelson”
  • Sinhala: “නෙල්සන්, නවසීලන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “නෙල්සන්”
  • Slovak: “Nelson”
  • Slovenian: “Nelson”
  • Spanish: “Nelson City”
  • Spanish: “Nelson”
  • Spanish: “Whakatū”
  • Swahili: “Nelson, New Zealand”
  • Swedish: “Nelson, Nya Zeeland”
  • Swedish: “Nelson”
  • Tamil: “நெல்சன், நியூசிலாந்து”
  • Tamil: “நெல்சன்”
  • Telugu: “నెల్సన్”
  • Thai: “เนลสัน”
  • Turkish: “Nelson City”
  • Turkish: “Nelson, Yeni Zelanda”
  • Turkish: “Nelson”
  • Turkish: “Whakatū”
  • Ukrainian: “Нельсон”
  • Urdu: “نیلسن، نیوزی لینڈ”
  • Vietnamese: “Nelson”
  • Volapük: “Nelson (Nula-Seleäns)”
  • Volapük: “Nelson”
  • Welsh: “Nelson”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیلسن، نیوزی لینڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼尔逊”
  • Yue Chinese: “奶路臣 (紐西蘭)”
  • “नेल्सन, न्यूजीलैंड”

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