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Tauranga City

Tauranga

Tauranga is a city 105 km east of and 85 km north of in the western on the east coast of the North Island of . It is the largest city in the Bay of Plenty and the fifth largest in the country.
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  • Type: City with 155,000 residents
  • Description: city in New Zealand’s North Island
  • Also known as: “Tauranga City” and “Tauranga-moana”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Baycourt Community and Arts Centre and Queen Elizabeth Youth Centre.

Arts center
Photo: Pakoire, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a multi-purpose performing arts and theatre facility in Tauranga, New Zealand. It was designed by Warren and Mahoney, and has a main auditorium, the Addison Theatre, that seats 589.

Community center
is a multi-purpose indoor sporting events and entertainment centre in Tauranga, . The centre has a maximum capacity of 2,580, having completed renovations in 2006.

Park
Photo: Pakoire, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a park and sports stadium in Tauranga, New Zealand. It is used mainly for rugby union matches and serves as a home ground for the Bay of Plenty Rugby Union.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tauranga South and Otūmoetai.

Suburb
Photo: Pseudopanax, Public domain.
is a suburb of Tauranga, on New Zealand's . It is located south-east of , north-east of and south-west of . The suburb has a bowls club which hosts bowls players from across the country.

Suburb
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is a suburb of Tauranga in the region of . The peninsula includes both the suburb, and the neighbouring suburbs of and .

Suburb
is a suburb of Tauranga in the region of New Zealand's . It is located on State Highway 2, east of . The suburb was established as a European fortified settlement in 1864, as part of an offensive against local Māori during the New Zealand Wars.

Tauranga

Latitude
-37.6859° or 37° 41′ 9″ south
Longitude
176.1675° or 176° 10′ 3″ east
Population
155,000
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
IATA airport code
TRG
United Nations Location Code
NZ TRG
Open location code
4VJR8579+J2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60130164
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2208032
Wiki­data ID
Q207756
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tauranga” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tauranga”
  • Arabic: “تاورانجا”
  • Asturian: “Tauranga”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tauranqa (Yeni Zellandiya)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tauranqa”
  • Basque: “Tauranga”
  • Belarusian: “Таўранга”
  • Bengali: “তাউরানাগা”
  • Bulgarian: “Тауранга”
  • Catalan: “Tauranga City”
  • Catalan: “Tauranga-moana”
  • Catalan: “Tauranga”
  • Cebuano: “Tauranga (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Tauranga”
  • Chinese: “陶兰加”
  • Chinese: “陶朗加”
  • Chinese: “陶朗阿”
  • Chinese: “陶蘭加”
  • Croatian: “Tauranga”
  • Czech: “Tauranga-moana”
  • Czech: “Tauranga”
  • Danish: “Tauranga”
  • Dutch: “Tauranga”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاورانجا”
  • Esperanto: “Tauranga”
  • Estonian: “Tauranga”
  • Finnish: “Tauranga”
  • French: “District de Tauranga”
  • French: “Tauranga”
  • Galician: “Tauranga”
  • Georgian: “ტაურანგა”
  • German: “Tauranga”
  • Greek: “Ταουράνγκα”
  • Gujarati: “તૌરંગા”
  • Hebrew: “טאורנגה”
  • Hindi: “टाइरंगा”
  • Hindi: “टौरंगा”
  • Hindi: “तौरांगा”
  • Ido: “Tauranga”
  • Indonesian: “Tauranga”
  • Irish: “Tauranga-moana”
  • Irish: “Tauranga”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Tauranga”
  • Italian: “Tauranga”
  • Japanese: “タウランガ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tauranga”
  • Kannada: “ತಾವ್ರ್ಂಗಾ”
  • Korean: “타우랑가”
  • Latvian: “Tauranga”
  • Lithuanian: “Tauranga”
  • Macedonian: “Тауранга”
  • Malay: “Tauranga”
  • Malayalam: “ടൗരാംഗ”
  • Maori: “Tauranga moana”
  • Maori: “Tauranga-moana”
  • Maori: “Tauranga”
  • Marathi: “टौरंगा”
  • Marathi: “तौरंगा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tauranga”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tauranga”
  • Norwegian: “Tauranga”
  • Persian: “تائورانگا”
  • Polish: “Tauranga”
  • Portuguese: “Tauranga”
  • Russian: “Тауранга”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tauranga”
  • Serbian: “Tauranga”
  • Serbian: “Тауранга”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tauranga”
  • Silesian: “Tauranga”
  • Sinhala: “ටෝරන්ගා, නවසීලන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “ටෝරන්ගා”
  • Spanish: “Tauranga-moana”
  • Spanish: “Tauranga”
  • Swahili: “Tauranga”
  • Swedish: “Tauranga”
  • Tamil: “டொராங்கா”
  • Tatar: “Тораңа”
  • Telugu: “టౌరంగా”
  • Thai: “เตารังงา”
  • Thai: “ทัวรังกา”
  • Tok Pisin: “Toranga”
  • Turkish: “Tauranga-moana”
  • Turkish: “Tauranga”
  • Ukrainian: “Тауранга”
  • Urdu: “تائورانگا”
  • Urdu: “تاور انجا”
  • Venetian: “Tauranga”
  • Vietnamese: “Tauranga”
  • Volapük: “Tauranga”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tauranga”
  • Welsh: “Tauranga”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹورانگا”
  • Wu Chinese: “陶朗加”
  • Yue Chinese: “陶蘭加”

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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 “Tauranga”. Photo: Pbsouthwood, CC BY-SA 3.0.