Waikato
The Waikato is a region of the North Island of New Zealand that lies to the south of Auckland and is named for the Waikato River that traverses its length.Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Hamilton and Matamata.
Hamilton
Hamilton is an inland city in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island.
Matamata
Matamata is a town in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand.
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Coromandel Peninsula
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Te Kuiti
Te Kuiti is a small town in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand.
Te Awamutu
Te Awamutu is a town in the Waikato region in the North Island of New Zealand.
Waikato
- Region of New Zealand with 532,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 51 metres (167 feet)
- …is also known as “Waikato Region”
- Description: region in North Island, New Zealand
- Neighbors
- Location
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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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