North Island
Taranaki
New Plymouth District

New Plymouth

New Plymouth is the largest city with an urban population of 58,000 in the region, on the western coast of in , about midway between and , but well to the west.
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  • Type: City with 58,400 residents
  • Description: city of New Zealand in Taranaki Region
  • Also known as: “New Plymouth City”, “New Plymouth Ngāmotu”, and “New Plymouth, New Zealand”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Pukekura Park and Yarrow Stadium.

Park
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is a Garden of National Significance, covering 52 hectares in the heart of New Plymouth, Taranaki in New Zealand.

Pitch
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Stadium Taranaki is situated in the central suburb of in New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand, with main vehicle access off Maratahu Street. Named the third best rugby stadium on earth by New Zealand Rugby World magazine in May 2009, Stadium Taranaki conforms with the International Rugby Board's "clean stadium" policy.

Observatory
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was opened in 1920 and is situated on Marsland Hill, Robe Street, New Plymouth, , and is the home of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vogeltown and Westown.

Suburb
is a suburb of New Plymouth, in the western of . It is located to the southeast of the city centre and east of . The suburb was named after Sir Julius Vogel, Prime Minister of New Zealand in the 1870s.

Suburb
is a suburb of New Plymouth, in the western of . It is located to the southwest of the city centre and west of .

Suburb
is a coastal suburb of New Plymouth, in the western of . It is located to the north-east of the city centre. The area was initially named the Block after Governor Robert reduced the land purchased by the…

New Plymouth

Latitude
-39.058° or 39° 3′ 29″ south
Longitude
174.0806° or 174° 4′ 50″ east
Population
58,400
Elevation
64 metres (210 feet)
IATA airport code
NPL
United Nations Location Code
NZ NPL
Open location code
4VGPW3RJ+R7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60024508
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2186239
Wiki­data ID
Q212984
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yakut—“New Plymouth” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “New Plymouth”
  • Afrikaans: “Nieu-Plymouth”
  • Arabic: “نيو بلايموث”
  • Asturian: “New Plymouth”
  • Basque: “New Plymouth”
  • Belarusian: “Нью-Плімут (Новая Зеландыя)”
  • Belarusian: “Нью-Плімут”
  • Bengali: “নিউ প্লাাইমাউত”
  • Catalan: “New Plymouth”
  • Cebuano: “New Plymouth (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “New Plymouth”
  • Chinese: “新普利茅斯”
  • Chinese: “新普利茅斯市”
  • Cornish: “Aberplymm Nowydh”
  • Czech: “New Plymouth”
  • Danish: “New Plymouth”
  • Dutch: “New Plymouth”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيو بلايموث”
  • Estonian: “New Plymouth”
  • Finnish: “New Plymouth”
  • French: “District de New Plymouth”
  • French: “New Plymouth District”
  • French: “New Plymouth”
  • Galician: “New Plymouth, Nova Zelandia”
  • Galician: “New Plymouth”
  • Georgian: “ნიუ-პლიმუთი”
  • German: “New Plymouth”
  • Greek: “Νιου Πλύμουθ”
  • Gujarati: “ન્યૂ પ્લીમાઉથ”
  • Hebrew: “ניו פלימות‘”
  • Hebrew: “ניו פלימות’”
  • Hindi: “न्यू प्लायमाउथ”
  • Indonesian: “New Plymouth”
  • Irish: “New Plymouth”
  • Irish: “Ngāmotu”
  • Italian: “Distretto di New Plymouth”
  • Italian: “New Plymouth”
  • Japanese: “ニュー・プリマス”
  • Japanese: “ニュープリマス”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯೂ ಪ್ಲೈಮಥ್”
  • Korean: “뉴 플리머스”
  • Korean: “뉴플리머스”
  • Latvian: “Jaunplīmuta”
  • Lithuanian: “Naujasis Plimutas”
  • Lithuanian: “Naujasis Plymutas”
  • Luxembourgish: “New Plymouth”
  • Macedonian: “Њу Плимут”
  • Malay: “New Plymouth”
  • Maori: “New Plymouth”
  • Maori: “Ngamotu”
  • Maori: “Ngāmotu”
  • Marathi: “न्यू प्लामाउथ”
  • Marathi: “न्यू प्लिमथ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نيوپلايماوت”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “New Plymouth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “New Plymouth”
  • Norwegian: “New Plymouth”
  • Persian: “نیوپلیموث”
  • Polish: “New Plymouth”
  • Portuguese: “New Plymouth”
  • Romanian: “New Plymouth”
  • Russian: “Нью-Плимут”
  • Scots: “New Plymouth”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “New Plymouth, Sealainn Nuadh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “New Plymouth”
  • Serbian: “Nju Plimut”
  • Serbian: “Њу Плимут”
  • Sinhala: “නිව් ප්ලයිමවුත්, නවසීලන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “නිව් ප්ලයිමවුත්”
  • Slovenian: “New Plymouth”
  • Spanish: “Nueva Plymouth”
  • Swahili: “New Plymouth”
  • Swedish: “New Plymouth”
  • Tamil: “நியூ ப்ளைமொத்”
  • Telugu: “న్యూ ప్లైమౌత్”
  • Thai: “นิวพลิมัท”
  • Thai: “นิวพลีมัธ”
  • Turkish: “New Plymouth, Yeni Zelanda”
  • Turkish: “New Plymouth”
  • Ukrainian: “Нью-Плімут”
  • Urdu: “نیو پلائی ماؤتھ”
  • Urdu: “نیو پلیمووتھ”
  • Vietnamese: “New Plymouth”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیو پلایماؤتھ”
  • Yakut: “Нью Плимут”
  • “New Plymouth”

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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 “New Plymouth”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.