Waikato

The Waikato is a region of the of that lies to the south of and is named for the Waikato River that traverses its length.

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Waikato

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Latitude of center
-37.5° or 37° 30′ south
Longitude of center
175.3333° or 175° 20′ east
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Western Armenian—“Waikato” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ዋይካቶ ክልል”
  • Arabic: “إقليم وايكاتو”
  • Aragonese: “Waikato”
  • Armenian: “Ուակիթո”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vayikato regionu”
  • Balinese: “Waikato”
  • Basque: “Waikato eskualdea”
  • Belarusian: “Вайката”
  • Belarusian: “Рэгіён Вайката”
  • Bengali: “ওয়াইকাতু অঞ্চল”
  • Bengali: “ওয়াইকাতো অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Уайкато”
  • Catalan: “Waikato”
  • Cebuano: “Waikato”
  • Chinese: “怀卡托”
  • Chinese: “懷卡托”
  • Croatian: “Waikato”
  • Czech: “Waikato (region)”
  • Czech: “Waikato”
  • Danish: “Waikato Region”
  • Dutch: “Waikato”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اقليم وايكاتو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وايكاتو”
  • Esperanto: “regiono Waikato”
  • Esperanto: “Waikato”
  • Estonian: “Waikato piirkond”
  • Finnish: “Waikaton maakunta”
  • French: “Région du Waikato”
  • French: “Waikato”
  • Galician: “Waikato”
  • Georgian: “ვაიკატოს რეგიონი”
  • Georgian: “უაიკატოს რეგიონი”
  • German: “NZ-WKO”
  • German: “Waikato Region”
  • German: “Waikato”
  • Greek: “Γουαϊκάτο”
  • Gujarati: “વાઇકાટો પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Yankuwar Waikato”
  • Hebrew: “ואיקטו”
  • Hindi: “वाइकाटो क्षेत्र”
  • Hungarian: “Waikato régió”
  • Hungarian: “Waikato”
  • Indonesian: “Waikato”
  • Irish: “Réigiún Waikato”
  • Italian: “Waikato”
  • Japanese: “ワイカト”
  • Japanese: “ワイカト地方”
  • Javanese: “Wilayah Waikato”
  • Kannada: “ವೈಕಾಟೊ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Вайкато облысы”
  • Kirghiz: “Вайкато аймагы”
  • Korean: “와이카토 지방”
  • Korean: “와이카토”
  • Latvian: “Vaikato reģions”
  • Latvian: “Vaikato”
  • Lithuanian: “Vaikato regionas”
  • Macedonian: “Ваикато”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Waikato”
  • Maori: “Waikato”
  • Marathi: “वाइकाटो प्रदेश”
  • Marathi: “वैकाटो”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Waikato Tōa-khu”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جيهة وايكاتو”
  • Northern Frisian: “Waikato Regiuun”
  • Northern Frisian: “Waikato”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Waikato”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Waikato”
  • Norwegian: “Waikato”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Waikato”
  • Oromo: “Naannoo Waikato”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੈਕਾਟੋ ਖੇਤਰ”
  • Persian: “وایکاتو”
  • Polish: “Waikato”
  • Portuguese: “Waikato”
  • Pushto: “وایکاتو سیمه”
  • Romanian: “Waikato”
  • Russian: “Вайкато”
  • Russian: “Уаикато”
  • Russian: “Уайкато”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Waikato Region”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Waikato”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Waikato”
  • Sinhala: “වයිකටෝ කලාපය, නවසීලන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “වයිකටෝ කලාපය”
  • Slovenian: “Waikato”
  • Somali: “Gobolka Waikato”
  • Spanish: “Región de Waikato”
  • Spanish: “Waikato”
  • Swahili: “Kikoa cha Waikato”
  • Swedish: “Waikato”
  • Tagalog: “Waikato”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Вайкато”
  • Tamil: “வைகாடோ பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Вайкато регионы”
  • Telugu: “వైకాటో ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “ไวกาโต”
  • Turkish: “Waikato Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Waikato”
  • Ukrainian: “Ваїкато”
  • Urdu: “وائکاٹو”
  • Uzbek: “Vayikato viloyati”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Waikato”
  • Western Armenian: “Ուայքաթօ”

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