South Island
Canterbury
Timaru District

Timaru

Timaru is a city of 28,900 as of June 2023 on the South Island of , on the east coast at Caroline Bay. It is a seaport and the second largest city in the region, and is about halfway between Christchurch and Dunedin.
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  • Type: Town with 28,600 residents
  • Description: town in New Zealand’s South Island
  • Also known as: “Timaru City”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sacred Heart Basilica and South Canterbury Museum.

Church
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The or Timaru Basilica, is a Catholic church in Timaru, New Zealand. The term basilica is used to describe the building's Roman basilican style. style.

Museum
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is a museum located in Timaru, New Zealand and owned by the Timaru District Council. Its collections include natural history specimens, Māori artefacts, European settlement and recent social history and documentary history.

Church
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St Mary's Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church located in Timaru, in the Canterbury region on the of New Zealand. One of the defining landmarks in Timaru, the present church was built in three stages in 1880, consecrated in 1886, with the distinct tower added in 1910.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West End and Waimataitai.

Suburb
is a suburb of Timaru, in the South Canterbury area and Canterbury region of New Zealand's . It is located west of the town centre. The suburb contains a multi-sport stadium called Fraser Park, which was branded as Alpine Energy Stadium.

Suburb
is a suburb of Timaru, in the South Canterbury district and Canterbury region of New Zealand's .

Suburb
is a suburb of Timaru, in the South Canterbury area and Canterbury region of New Zealand's . It is located southwest of the town centre.

Timaru

Latitude
-44.393° or 44° 23′ 35″ south
Longitude
171.251° or 171° 15′ 4″ east
Population
28,600
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
TIU
Open location code
4V7HJ742+Q9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 410464091
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2181133
Wiki­data ID
Q1016574
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Timaru” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Timaru”
  • Albanian: “Timaru”
  • Arabic: “تيمارو”
  • Aragonese: “Timaru”
  • Asturian: “Timaru”
  • Basque: “Timaru”
  • Bavarian: “Timaru”
  • Belarusian: “Тымару”
  • Bengali: “টিমারু”
  • Bosnian: “Timaru”
  • Catalan: “Timaru”
  • Cebuano: “Timaru”
  • Chinese: “提瑪魯”
  • Chinese: “提馬魯”
  • Chinese: “蒂馬魯”
  • Chinese: “蒂马鲁”
  • Croatian: “Timaru”
  • Czech: “Timaru”
  • Danish: “Timaru”
  • Dutch: “Timaru”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تيمارو”
  • Esperanto: “Timaru”
  • Estonian: “Timaru”
  • Faroese: “Timaru”
  • Finnish: “Timaru”
  • French: “District de Timaru”
  • French: “Timaru District”
  • French: “Timaru”
  • Galician: “Timaru”
  • Georgian: “ტიმარუ”
  • German: “Timaru-Distrikt”
  • German: “Timaru”
  • Greek: “Τιμαρού”
  • Gujarati: “તિમારુ”
  • Hebrew: “טימרו”
  • Hindi: “टिमरु”
  • Hindi: “तिमुरु”
  • Hungarian: “Timaru”
  • Icelandic: “Timaru”
  • Indonesian: “Timaru”
  • Irish: “Timaru”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Timaru”
  • Italian: “Timaru”
  • Japanese: “ティマル”
  • Japanese: “ティマルー”
  • Kannada: “ಟಿಮಾರು”
  • Korean: “티머루”
  • Korean: “팀아루”
  • Latvian: “Timaru”
  • Lithuanian: “Timaru”
  • Low German: “Timaru”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Timaru”
  • Luxembourgish: “Timaru”
  • Malay: “Timaru, New Zealand”
  • Maori: “Te Tihi-o-Maru”
  • Maori: “Timaru”
  • Marathi: “तिमुरु”
  • Minangkabau: “Timaru”
  • Northern Frisian: “Timaru”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Timaru”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Timaru”
  • Norwegian: “Timaru”
  • Persian: “تیمارو”
  • Polish: “Timaru”
  • Portuguese: “Timaru”
  • Romanian: “Timaru”
  • Romansh: “Timaru”
  • Russian: “Тимару”
  • Scots: “Timaru”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Timaru, Sealainn Nuadh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Timaru”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Timaru”
  • Sinhala: “ටිමාරු”
  • Slovak: “Timaru”
  • Slovenian: “Timaru”
  • Spanish: “Timaru”
  • Swedish: “Timaru”
  • Swiss German: “Timaru”
  • Tamil: “டிமாறு”
  • Telugu: “తిమారు”
  • Thai: “ทิมารุ”
  • Turkish: “Timaru”
  • Ukrainian: “Тімару”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Timaru”
  • Urdu: “تیمارو”
  • Vietnamese: “Timaru”
  • Welsh: “Timaru”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع تیمارو”
  • “Timaru”

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