Wairoa
Wairoa is the largest town in the Wairoa District and the northernmost town in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located on the northern shore of Hawke Bay at the mouth of the Wairoa River and to the west of Māhia Peninsula.
- Town with about 4,870 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 60 metres (190 feet)
- Description: town in Hawke’s Bay Region, New Zealand
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wairoa Lighthouse and St Peter’s Church.
Wairoa
- Category: locality
- Location
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Latitude
-39.0394° or 39° 2′ 22″ south
Longitude
177.4271° or 177° 25′ 38″ east
UN/LOCODE
NZ WIR
Open location code
4VGVXC6G+6V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Wairoa” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Wairoa”
- Catalan: “Wairoa”
- Cebuano: “Wairoa”
- Dutch: “Wairoa”
- French: “Wairoa”
- German: “Wairoa”
- Italian: “Wairoa”
- Japanese: “ワイロア”
- Malay: “Wairoa”
- Maori: “Wairoa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wairoa”
- Polish: “Wairoa”
- Russian: “Уэйроа”
- Silesian: “Wairoa”
- Swedish: “Wairoa”
- Turkish: “Wairoa”
- Urdu: “وائیروا”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع وائیروا”
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