North Island
Bay of Plenty
Rotorua Lakes District

Rotorua

Rotorua is the geothermal wonderland of , with easily experienced Māori culture, family activities and a range of outdoor adventure activities such as white-water rafting and mountain biking.
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  • Type: City with 58,400 residents
  • Description: city in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
  • Also known as: “Rotorua, Bay of Plenty” and “Rotorua, New Zealand”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rotorua Museum and Government Gardens.

Museum
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The is a local museum and art gallery located in the near the centre of Rotorua, New Zealand. It is dedicated to art culture and heritage of Rotorua and wider New Zealand.

Park
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The is a , partly laid out as gardens, located beside Lake Rotorua in central Rotorua, , , New Zealand.

Theater building
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is a theater building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glenholme and Mangakakahi.

Suburb
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is a suburb of Rotorua in the of New Zealand's .

Suburb
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is a suburb of Rotorua in the of New Zealand's .

Suburb
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is a suburb of Rotorua in the of New Zealand's . In April 2018, had the highest house prices in Rotorua.

Rotorua

Latitude
-38.1361° or 38° 8′ 10″ south
Longitude
176.2525° or 176° 15′ 9″ east
Population
58,400
Elevation
287 metres (942 feet)
IATA airport code
ROT
United Nations Location Code
NZ ROT
Open location code
4VHRV773+H2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 53445867
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6241325
Wiki­data ID
Q208948
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Rotorua” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rotorua”
  • Arabic: “روتوروا”
  • Aragonese: “Rotorua”
  • Armenian: “Ռոտորուա”
  • Asturian: “Rotorua”
  • Basque: “Rotorua”
  • Belarusian: “Ратаруа”
  • Bengali: “রটুরা”
  • Bulgarian: “Роторуа”
  • Catalan: “Rotorua”
  • Cebuano: “Rotorua”
  • Chinese: “罗托路亚”
  • Chinese: “罗托鲁阿”
  • Chinese: “羅托路亞”
  • Chinese: “羅托魯瓦”
  • Chinese: “魯多努亞”
  • Czech: “Rotorua”
  • Danish: “Rotorua”
  • Dutch: “Rotorua”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روتوروا”
  • Esperanto: “Rotorua”
  • Estonian: “Rotorua”
  • Finnish: “Rotorua”
  • French: “Rotorua”
  • Galician: “Rotorua”
  • Georgian: “როტორუა”
  • German: “Rotorua”
  • Greek: “Ροτόρουα”
  • Gujarati: “રોટોરુઆ”
  • Hebrew: “רוטורואה”
  • Hindi: “रोटोरुआ”
  • Hungarian: “Rotorua”
  • Ido: “Rotorua”
  • Indonesian: “Rotorua”
  • Irish: “Rotorua”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Rotorua”
  • Italian: “Rotorua”
  • Japanese: “ロトルア”
  • Kalaallisut: “Rotorua”
  • Kannada: “ರೊಟೋರುವ”
  • Korean: “로토루아 구”
  • Korean: “로토루아 시”
  • Korean: “로토루아”
  • Latvian: “Rotorua”
  • Lithuanian: “Rotorua”
  • Malagasy: “Rotorua”
  • Malay: “Rotorua”
  • Malayalam: “റൊട്ടൊറുവ”
  • Maori: “Rotorua Moana”
  • Maori: “Rotorua-nui-a-Kahu”
  • Maori: “Rotorua-nui-a-Kahumatamomoe”
  • Maori: “Rotorua”
  • Maori: “Te Rotorua nui ā Kahumatamomoe”
  • Marathi: “रोटुरुआ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rotorua”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rotorua”
  • Norwegian: “Rotorua”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rotorua”
  • Persian: “روتوروا”
  • Polish: “Rotorua”
  • Portuguese: “Rotorua”
  • Russian: “Роторуа”
  • Scots: “Rotorua”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rotorua”
  • Serbian: “Rotorua”
  • Serbian: “Роторуа”
  • Silesian: “Rotorua”
  • Sinhala: “රෝටෝරුවා, නවසීලන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “රෝටෝරුවා”
  • Slovenian: “Rotorua”
  • Spanish: “Rotorua (Nueva Zelanda)”
  • Spanish: “Rotorua”
  • Swahili: “Rotorua”
  • Swedish: “Rotorua”
  • Tamil: “ரோடோரோவா”
  • Telugu: “రోటర్యూవ”
  • Thai: “โรโตรัว”
  • Turkish: “Rotorua, Bay of Plenty”
  • Turkish: “Rotorua, Yeni Zelanda”
  • Turkish: “Rotorua”
  • Ukrainian: “Роторуа”
  • Urdu: “روتوروا”
  • Urdu: “روٹوروا”
  • Vietnamese: “Rotorua”
  • Wallisian: “Rotorua”
  • Welsh: “Rotorua”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع روٹوروا”
  • Yue Chinese: “魯多努亞”

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