Hamilton

Hamilton is an inland city in the region of . In 2020, Hamilton was awarded the title of most beautiful large city in New Zealand. Hamilton Gardens is the region's most popular tourist attraction.
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  • Type: City with 179,000 residents
  • Description: largest city in New Zealand’s Waikato region
  • Also known as: “H-Town”, “Hamilton City”, “Hamilton, New Zealand”, “Hamiltron”, “Kirikiriroa”, “The Fountain City”, and “The Tron”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Seddon Park and Waikato Museum.

Stadium
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is a cricket ground in Hamilton, New Zealand. It is the fourth-largest cricket ground in the country, and is renowned for its "village green" setting, affording a picnic atmosphere for spectators.

Museum
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is a regional museum located in Hamilton, New Zealand. The museum manages ArtsPost, a shop and gallery space for New Zealand art and design.

Lake
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or Hamilton Lake is a in Hamilton, , , New Zealand. It has a surface area of about 54 hectares and an average depth of 2.4 metres. It is the home of the Hamilton Yacht Club, which holds regular sailing in the summer.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hamilton East and Frankton.

Suburb
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is a suburb in central Hamilton in . The suburb's primary commercial and retail precinct is located along Grey Street. is characterised by villas and bungalows built early in the 20th century.

Suburb
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is a central suburb of the city of Hamilton, . It is the site of the city's passenger railway station, a major industrial-commercial stretch of State Highway 1C, and a commercial shopping area.

Suburb
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is a suburb directly to the east of central Hamilton, New Zealand, across the . It is linked to the central city by the and the East Coast Main Trunk Railway bridge.

Hamilton

Latitude
-37.7879° or 37° 47′ 16″ south
Longitude
175.2818° or 175° 16′ 54″ east
Population
179,000
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
Named after
John Hamilton
IATA airport code
HLZ
United Nations Location Code
NZ HLZ
Open location code
4VJQ676J+RP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60729033
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2190324
Wiki­data ID
Q200028
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Hamilton” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hamilton, Nieu-Seeland”
  • Afrikaans: “Hamilton”
  • Arabic: “هاملتون، نيوزيلندا”
  • Arabic: “هاميلتون نيوزيلندا”
  • Arabic: “هاميلتون”
  • Armenian: “Համիլտոն (Նոր Զելանդիա)”
  • Armenian: “Համիլտոն”
  • Asturian: “Hamilton”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hamilton”
  • Basque: “Hamilton”
  • Belarusian: “Гамільтан,”
  • Belarusian: “Гамільтан”
  • Bengali: “হ্যামিল্টন, নিউজিল্যান্ড”
  • Bengali: “হ্যামিল্টন”
  • Bhojpuri: “हैमिल्टन”
  • Bulgarian: “Хамилтън”
  • Catalan: “Hamilton, Nova Zelanda”
  • Catalan: “Hamilton”
  • Catalan: “Kirikiriroa”
  • Cebuano: “Hamilton (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Hamilton”
  • Chinese: “咸美頓”
  • Chinese: “哈密尔顿”
  • Chinese: “汉密尔顿，新西兰”
  • Chinese: “汉密顿市”
  • Chinese: “漢密爾頓市”
  • Chinese: “漢密頓”
  • Chinese: “漢密頓市”
  • Chinese: “漢米爾頓”
  • Chinese: “漢美頓”
  • Croatian: “Hamilton, Novi Zeland”
  • Czech: “Hamilton”
  • Danish: “Hamilton”
  • Dutch: “Hamilton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هاميلتون”
  • Esperanto: “Hamilton”
  • Faroese: “Hamilton”
  • Finnish: “Hamilton”
  • French: “District de Hamilton”
  • French: “Hamilton District”
  • French: “Hamilton”
  • Galician: “Hamilton, Nova Zelandia”
  • Galician: “Hamilton”
  • Galician: “Kirikiriroa”
  • Georgian: “ჰამილტონი”
  • German: “Hamilton”
  • Greek: “Κιρικιριρόα”
  • Greek: “Χάμιλτον”
  • Gujarati: “હેમિલ્ટન”
  • Hebrew: “המילטון”
  • Hindi: “हैमिल्टन, न्यूज़ीलैण्ड”
  • Hindi: “हैमिल्टन”
  • Icelandic: “Hamilton”
  • Ido: “Hamilton, Nova-Zelando”
  • Indonesian: “Hamilton, Selandia Baru”
  • Indonesian: “Hamilton”
  • Interlingue: “Hamilton (Nov-Zeland)”
  • Interlingue: “Hamilton”
  • Irish: “Hamilton”
  • Irish: “Kirikiriroa”
  • Italian: “Hamilton”
  • Japanese: “ハミルトン”
  • Kalaallisut: “Hamilton”
  • Kannada: “ಹ್ಯಾಮಿಲ್ಟನ್”
  • Korean: “해밀턴”
  • Latvian: “Hamiltona”
  • Lithuanian: “Hamiltonas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hamilton”
  • Macedonian: “Хамилтон”
  • Malay: “Hamilton, New Zealand”
  • Malay: “Hamilton”
  • Malayalam: “ഹാമിൽടൺ”
  • Maori: “Hamilton”
  • Maori: “Kirikiriroa”
  • Marathi: “हॅमिल्टन, न्यू झीलँड”
  • Marathi: “हॅमिल्टन, न्यू झीलंड”
  • Marathi: “हॅमिल्टन”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “هاميلطون”
  • Nauru: “Hamilton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamilton, New Zealand”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamilton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hamilton på New Zealand”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hamilton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kirikiriroa”
  • Norwegian: “Hamilton”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hameldūn”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hamilton, New Zealand”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੈਮਿਲਟਨ, ਨਿਊਜ਼ੀਲੈਂਡ”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੈਮਿਲਟਨ”
  • Persian: “هامیلتون(نیوزیلند)”
  • Persian: “هامیلتون”
  • Polish: “Hamilton”
  • Portuguese: “Hamilton”
  • Russian: “Гамильтон”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱟᱢᱤᱞᱴᱚᱱ, ᱱᱤᱭᱩᱡᱤᱞᱮᱱᱰ”
  • Scots: “Hamilton, New Zealand”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hamilton, Sealainn Nuadh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hamilton”
  • Serbian: “Hamilton”
  • Serbian: “Хамилтон, Нови Зеланд”
  • Serbian: “Хамилтон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hamilton, Novi Zeland”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hamilton”
  • Sinhala: “හැමිල්ටන්, නවසීලන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “හැමිල්ටන්”
  • Slovak: “Hamilton (Nový Zéland)”
  • Slovak: “Hamilton”
  • Slovenian: “Hamilton”
  • Spanish: “Hamilton (Nueva Zelanda)”
  • Spanish: “Hamilton”
  • Swahili: “Hamilton, New Zealand”
  • Swedish: “Hamilton, Nya Zeeland”
  • Swedish: “Hamilton”
  • Tamil: “ஆமில்டன், நியூசிலாந்து”
  • Tamil: “ஆமில்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Һәмилтон”
  • Telugu: “హామిల్టన్”
  • Thai: “ฮามิลตัน (ประเทศนิวซีแลนด์), เมืองฮามิลตัน, คิริคิริโรอา”
  • Thai: “ฮามิลตัน”
  • Tok Pisin: “Hamiltan, Niu Silan”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Hamilitoni, Nuʻu Sila”
  • Turkish: “Hamilton, Yeni Zelanda”
  • Turkish: “Hamilton”
  • Turkish: “Kirikiriroa”
  • Ukrainian: “Гамілтон”
  • Ukrainian: “Гамільтон”
  • Urdu: “ہیملٹن، نیوزی لینڈ”
  • Urdu: “ہیملٹن”
  • Venetian: “Hamilton”
  • Vietnamese: “Hamilton, New Zealand”
  • Vietnamese: “Hamilton”
  • Volapük: “Hamilton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hamilton, New Zealand”
  • Welsh: “Hamilton”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہیملٹن، نیوزی لینڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈密尔顿 (新西兰)”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈密尔顿（新西兰）”
  • Yue Chinese: “咸美頓 (紐西蘭)”
  • “हैमिल्टन, न्यूज़ीलैण्ड”

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