Wellington
Wellington is the capital and second largest urban area of New Zealand. It is also the world's southernmost capital city of a UN member state. The Windy City is on the foreshore of Wellington Harbour and ringed by hills, providing the scenic home of many of New Zealand's national arts and cultural attractions.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include City and Porirua.
Porirua
Porirua is a city in the Wellington urban area in the southern North Island of New Zealand.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum of New Zealand and Sky Stadium.
Museum of New Zealand
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa…
Sky Stadium
Wellington Regional Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Wellington, New Zealand.
The Beehive
The Beehive is the common name for the Executive Wing…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karori and Te Aro.
Newtown
The suburb of Newtown lies in the southern part of Wellington in New Zealand.
Wellington
- City with about 216,000 residents
- …has the IATA airport code WLG
- …is named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- Description: capital city of New Zealand; urban area of the cities of Wellington, Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt, and Porirua
- Also known as“Pōneke”“Port Nicholson”“Port Nick”“Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara”“Wellington metropolitan area”“Wellington, New Zealand”“Wellington, NZ”“Whanga-nui-a-Tara”
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Latitude
-41.2888° or 41° 17′ 20″ south
Longitude
174.7772° or 174° 46′ 38″ east
UN/LOCODE
NZ WLG
Open location code
4VCPPQ6G+FV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Wellington” goes by many names.
WellingtonAchinese
WellingtonAfrikaans
Wellington, Nieu-SeelandAfrikaans
UellingtonAlbanian
WellingtonAlbanian
ዌሊንግተንAmharic
ولينغتونArabic
ويلنغتونArabic
ويلينجتونArabic
ويلينغتونArabic
WellingtonAragonese
ՎելինգտոնArmenian
WellingtonAsturian
VellinqtonAzerbaijani
Vellinqton şəhəriAzerbaijani
WellingtonBalinese
ВеллингтонBashkir
WellingtonBasque
ВелінгтанBelarusian
ВэлінгтанBelarusian
УэлінгтанBelarusian
ওয়েলিংটনBengali
वेलिंग्टनBhojpuri
ৱেলিংটনBishnupriya
VelingtonBosnian
WellingtonBosnian
WellingtonBreton
УелингтънBulgarian
ဝယ်လင်တန်မြို့Burmese
WellingtonCatalan
WellingtonCebuano
Wellington (ulohang dakbayan)Cebuano
وێڵینگتنCentral Kurdish
ВеллингтонChechen
威靈頓Chinese
威靈頓市Chinese
惠灵顿Chinese
惠灵顿 / 惠靈頓 / 威靈頓Chinese
惠靈頓市Chinese
ВєлингътонъChurch Slavic
ВеллингтонChuvash
WellingtonCornish
WellingtonCorsican
WellingtonCroatian
WellingtonCzech
WellingtonDanish
WellingtonDimli (individual language)
WellingtonDutch
ويلينجتونEgyptian Arabic
WellingtonEmilian
VelingtonoEsperanto
WellingtonEsperanto
WellingtonEstonian
WellingtonExtremaduran
WellingtonFaroese
WellingtonFiji Hindi
WeligitoniFijian
WellingtonFinnish
WellingtonFriulian
WellingtonGagauz
Cidade de WellingtonGalician
WellingtonGalician
ველინგტონიGeorgian
უელინგტონიGeorgian
ΟυέλινγκτονGreek
ΟυέλλιγκτονGreek
ΟυέλλινγκτονGreek
વેલિંગ્ટનGujarati
WelintònHaitian
WellingtonHakka Chinese
WellingtonHausa
WelinakonaHawaiian
וולינגטוןHebrew
ולינגטוןHebrew
ते वांगानुई अ ताराHindi
पोनेकेHindi
वेलिंग्टनHindi
वेलिङ्गटनHindi
वेलिन्ग्टनHindi
WellingtonHungarian
WellingtonIcelandic
WellingtonIdo
WellingtonInari Sami
WellingtonIndonesian
WellingtonInterlingue
Te Whanga-nui-a-TaraIrish
WellingtonIrish
WellingtonItalian
ウェリントンJapanese
テ・ワンガヌイ＝ア＝タラJapanese
ポネケJapanese
WellingtonKabyle
WellingtonKalaallisut
ವೆಲಿಂಗ್ಟನ್Kannada
ವೆಲ್ಲಿಂಗ್ಟನ್Kannada
ВеллингтонKazakh
УэллингтонKazakh
ВеллингтонKirghiz
웰링턴Korean
웰링턴 시Korean
웰링톤Korean
WellingtonKotava
WellingtonKurdish
WellingtonLadino
VellingtoniaLatin
WellingtonLatin
VelingtonaLatvian
WellingtonLatvian
WellingtonLigurian
WellingtonLingua Franca Nova
VelingtonasLithuanian
WellingtonLithuanian
VellingtonLivvi
WellingtonLombard
WellingtonLuxembourgish
Te Whanga-nui-a-TaraMacedonian
UeligitoneMacedonian
VelingtonasMacedonian
VelingtonoMacedonian
VellingtoniaMacedonian
VellinqtonMacedonian
WelintònMacedonian
WellingatunMacedonian
WellingtonMacedonian
WeolingtūnMacedonian
ΟυέλλινγκτονMacedonian
ВелингтонMacedonian
ВелінгтанMacedonian
ВеллингтонMacedonian
ВеллінгтонMacedonian
ВэлінгтанMacedonian
УелингтънMacedonian
ველინგტონიMacedonian
ՎելինգտոնMacedonian
װעלינגטאןMacedonian
ולינגטוןMacedonian
ولینگتونMacedonian
ويلينغتونMacedonian
ویلنگٹنMacedonian
ۋېللىنگتونMacedonian
ዌሊንግተንMacedonian
वेलिंग्टनMacedonian
ওয়েলিংটনMacedonian
વેલિંગ્ટનMacedonian
வெலிங்டன்Macedonian
ವೆಲ್ಲಿಂಗ್ಟನ್Macedonian
เวลลิงตันMacedonian
ཝེ་ལིང་ཐོན།Macedonian
ဝယ်လင်တန်မြို့Macedonian
웰링턴Macedonian
ウェリントンMacedonian
威靈頓Macedonian
惠灵顿Macedonian
वेलिङ्गटनMaithili
WellingtonMalay
Wellington, New ZealandMalay
വെല്ലിംഗ്ടൺMalayalam
WellingtonMaltese
PōnekeMaori
Takiwā o Te Whanga-nui-a-TaraMaori
Te Whanga-nui-a-TaraMaori
WellingtonMaori
Whanga-nui-a-TaraMaori
वेलिंग्टनMarathi
ويلينگتونMesopotamian Arabic
Hiê-lìng-dóngMin Dong Chinese
WellingtonMin Dong Chinese
WellingtonMin Nan Chinese
WellingtonMinangkabau
ველინგთონიMingrelian
ველინგტონიMingrelian
უელინგტონიMingrelian
ВеллингтонMongolian
ويلينڭطونMoroccan Arabic
ويلينݣطونMoroccan Arabic
WellingtonNauru
Tábąąh NaayolíNavajo
वेलिङ्गटनNepali
वेलिंगटनNewari
WellingtonNorthern Frisian
WellingtonNorthern Sami
WellingtonNorwegian
PōnekeNorwegian Bokmål
Te Whanganui-a-TaraNorwegian Bokmål
WellingtonNorwegian Bokmål
Wellington, New ZealandNorwegian Bokmål
Wellington, NZNorwegian Bokmål
PonekeNorwegian Nynorsk
Te Whanganui-a-TaraNorwegian Nynorsk
WellingtonNorwegian Nynorsk
WellintonNovial
WellingtonOccitan (post 1500)
WellingatunOld English (ca. 450-1100)
WellingtonOld English (ca. 450-1100)
Wellingtūn (landscipe) on Nīwum SǣlandeOld English (ca. 450-1100)
WeolingtūnOld English (ca. 450-1100)
WillungtūnOld English (ca. 450-1100)
ВеллингтонOssetian
ਵੈਲਿੰਗਟਨPanjabi
ولینگتنPersian
ولینگتونPersian
WellingtonPiemontese
WelingtanPitcairn-Norfolk
WelingtonPolish
WellingtonPolish
ولینګتونPushto
WelintawnQuechua
WellingtonQuechua
WellingtonRomanian
ВеллингтонRussian
УэллингтонRussian
WellingtonSakizaya
UeligitoneSamoan
ᱣᱮᱞᱤᱝᱴᱚᱱSantali
WellingtonSardinian
Ceety o WellingtonScots
WellingtonScots
Te Whanga-nui-a-TaraScottish Gaelic
WellingtonScottish Gaelic
Wellington, Sealainn NuadhScottish Gaelic
WellingtonSerbian
ВелингтонSerbian
WellingtonSerbo-Croatian
ဝဵင်းဝႄႇလိင်းတၢၼ်ႇShan
WellingtonShona
WellingtonSicilian
WellingtonSilesian
ويلنگٽنSindhi
වෙලිංටන්Sinhala
වෙලින්ටන්Sinhala
වෙලින්ටන්, නවසීලන්තයSinhala
WellingtonSlovak
WellingtonSlovenian
WellingtonSomali
WellingtonSundanese
WellingtonSwahili
WellingtonSwedish
Wellington på Nya ZeelandSwedish
WellingtonTagalog
VeringitoniTahitian
Whanga-nui-a-TaraTahitian
ВеллингтонTajik
VellingtonTalysh
வெலிங்டன்Tamil
வெலிங்டன், நியூசிலாந்துTamil
WellingtonTatar
ВеллиңтонTatar
వెలింగ్టన్Telugu
WellingtonThai
เวลลิงตันThai
ཝེ་ལིང་ཐོན།Tibetan
WelingtanTok Pisin
ʻUēlingatoniTonga (Tonga Islands)
Te Whanga-nui-a-TaraTurkish
WellingtonTurkish
Wellington, NZTurkish
WellingtonTurkmen
ВеллингтонUdmurt
ۋېللىنگتونUighur
ВеллінгтонUkrainian
ВеллінґтонUkrainian
ویلنگٹنUrdu
UellingtonUzbek
VellingtonUzbek
WellingtonVenetian
VellingtonVeps
WellingtonVietnamese
WellingtonVolapük
WellingtonWaray (Philippines)
WellingtonWelsh
ՈւելինկթընWestern Armenian
WellingtonWestern Frisian
ویلنگٹنWestern Panjabi
惠灵顿Wu Chinese
УэллингтонYakut
װעלינגטאָןYiddish
WellingtonYoruba
威靈頓Yue Chinese
惠靈頓Yue Chinese
WellingtonZeeuws
i-WellingtonZulu
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.”
Greater Wellington: Highlights
Learn more about Lower Hutt and Upper Hutt.
