Paihia
Paihia is an historic town in the Bay of Islands in the Northland region of the North Island of New Zealand. It has numerous sights and activities, and stunning views of the bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Treaty House and Paihia Library.
Treaty House
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The Treaty House at Waitangi in Northland, New Zealand, is the former house of the British Resident in New Zealand, James Busby. The Treaty of Waitangi, the document that established the British Colony of New Zealand, was signed in the grounds of the Treaty House on 6 February 1840.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Russell and Waitangi.
Russell
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Russell is a charming, elegant township in the Bay of Islands, in the Northland region of the North Island of New Zealand. A short passenger ferry ride across the bay from Paihia and the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi, this historic town is one of the earliest European settlements in New Zealand, dating back to the early 19th century.
Waitangi
Village
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Waitangi is a locality on the north side of the Waitangi River in the Bay of Islands, 60 kilometres north of Whangārei, on the North Island of New Zealand.
Haruru
Town
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Haruru is a residential and commercial locality in the Far North District of New Zealand. State Highway 11 runs through the locality. Puketona is 10 kilometres west, and Paihia is 4 kilometres east, The name means a continuous noise or roar in the Māori language, which refers to the sound of Haruru Falls, a five metre high broad waterfall about a kilometre away.
Paihia
- Type: Town with 1,680 residents
- Description: town in New Zealand
- Category: locality
- Location: Far Far North, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-35.2812° or 35° 16′ 53″ southLongitude
174.0921° or 174° 5′ 32″ eastPopulation
1,680Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
NZ PAIOpen location code
4VPPP39R+GROpenStreetMap ID
node 251192327OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Paihia” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Paihia”
- Bulgarian: “Паихиа”
- Cebuano: “Paihia”
- Chinese: “派希亞”
- Dutch: “Paihia”
- French: “Paihia”
- German: “Paihia”
- Hausa: “Paihia”
- Hindi: “Paihia”
- Italian: “Paihia”
- Japanese: “パイヒア”
- Korean: “파이히아”
- Macedonian: “Паихија”
- Malay: “Paihia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paihia”
- Polish: “Paihia”
- Slovenian: “Paihia”
- Spanish: “Paihia”
- Turkish: “Paihia”
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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 “Paihia”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.