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Wellington

Wellington is the capital and second largest urban area of . 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.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include City and Porirua.

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Wellington is that part of the urban area of Wellington in New Zealand that is administered by Wellington Council. The Windy is centred on the western foreshore of Wellington Harbour and stretches as far north as the suburb of Tawa.

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is a city in the Wellington urban area in the southern of . 's central business district is about 20 km north of the CBD.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum of New Zealand and Sky Stadium.

Museum
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The Te Papa Tongarewa is 's national museum and is located in Wellington. Usually known as Te Papa, it opened in 1998 after the merging of the National and the National Art Gallery.

Stadium
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Wellington Regional Stadium is a major sporting venue in Wellington, . The stadium's bowl site size is 48,000 m2. The stadium was built in 1999 by Fletcher Construction and is situated close to major transport facilities one kilometre north of the CBD.

Library
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The is charged with the obligation to "enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations".

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Karori and Te Aro.

Suburb
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is a suburb located at the western edge of the urban area of Wellington, New Zealand, 4 kilometres from the city centre and is one of New Zealand's most populous suburbs, with a population of 15,100 in June 2025.

Suburb
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is an inner-city suburb of Wellington, . It comprises the southern part of the including the majority of the city's entertainment district and covers the mostly flat area of city between The Terrace and Cambridge Terrace at the base of .

Suburb
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The suburb of lies in the southern part of Wellington in . It lies east of , between and . The main thoroughfares of are Riddiford St, leading from Mount Cook to Berhampore and , and Constable St, leading from to .

Wellington

Latitude
-41.2888° or 41° 17′ 20″ south
Longitude
174.7772° or 174° 46′ 38″ east
Population
216,000
Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)
Named after
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
IATA airport code
WLG
United Nations Location Code
NZ WLG
Open location code
4VCPPQ6G+FV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 204648
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2179537
Wiki­data ID
Q23661
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Wellington” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Wellington”
  • Afrikaans: “Wellington, Nieu-Seeland”
  • Afrikaans: “Wellington”
  • Albanian: “Uellington”
  • Albanian: “Wellington”
  • Amharic: “ዌሊንግተን”
  • Arabic: “ولينغتون”
  • Arabic: “ويلنغتون”
  • Arabic: “ويلينجتون”
  • Arabic: “ويلينغتون”
  • Aragonese: “Wellington”
  • Armenian: “Վելինգտոն”
  • Asturian: “Wellington”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vellinqton şəhəri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vellinqton”
  • Balinese: “Wellington”
  • Bashkir: “Веллингтон”
  • Basque: “Wellington”
  • Belarusian: “Велінгтан”
  • Belarusian: “Вэлінгтан”
  • Belarusian: “Уэлінгтан”
  • Bengali: “ওয়েলিংটন”
  • Bhojpuri: “वेलिंग्टन”
  • Bishnupriya: “ৱেলিংটন”
  • Bosnian: “Velington”
  • Bosnian: “Wellington”
  • Breton: “Wellington”
  • Bulgarian: “Уелингтън”
  • Burmese: “ဝယ်လင်တန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Wellington”
  • Cebuano: “Wellington (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Wellington”
  • Central Kurdish: “وێڵینگتن”
  • Chechen: “Веллингтон”
  • Chinese: “Wellington”
  • Chinese: “威靈頓”
  • Chinese: “威靈頓市”
  • Chinese: “惠灵顿 / 惠靈頓 / 威靈頓”
  • Chinese: “惠灵顿”
  • Chinese: “惠靈頓市”
  • Church Slavic: “Вєлингътонъ”
  • Chuvash: “Веллингтон”
  • Cornish: “Wellington”
  • Corsican: “Wellington”
  • Croatian: “Wellington”
  • Czech: “Wellington”
  • Danish: “Wellington”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Wellington”
  • Dutch: “Wellington”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويلينجتون”
  • Esperanto: “Velingtono”
  • Esperanto: “Wellington”
  • Estonian: “Wellington”
  • Extremaduran: “Wellington”
  • Faroese: “Wellington”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Wellington”
  • Fijian: “Weligitoni”
  • Finnish: “Wellington”
  • French: “District de Wellington”
  • French: “Pōneke”
  • French: “Te Whanganui-a-Tara”
  • French: “Ville de Wellington”
  • French: “Wellington”
  • Friulian: “Wellington”
  • Gagauz: “Wellington”
  • Galician: “Cidade de Wellington”
  • Galician: “Wellington”
  • Georgian: “ველინგტონი”
  • Georgian: “უელინგტონი”
  • German: “Port Nick”
  • German: “Wellington”
  • German: “Windy Wellington”
  • Greek: “Ουέλινγκτον”
  • Greek: “Ουέλλιγκτον”
  • Greek: “Ουέλλινγκτον”
  • Gujarati: “વેલિંગ્ટન”
  • Haitian: “Welintòn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Wellington”
  • Hausa: “Wellington”
  • Hawaiian: “Welinakona”
  • Hebrew: “וולינגטון”
  • Hebrew: “ולינגטון”
  • Hindi: “ते वांगानुई अ तारा”
  • Hindi: “पोनेके”
  • Hindi: “वेलिंगटन”
  • Hindi: “वेलिंग्टन”
  • Hindi: “वेलिङ्गटन”
  • Hindi: “वेलिन्ग्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Wellington”
  • Icelandic: “Wellington”
  • Ido: “Wellington”
  • Inari Sami: “Wellington”
  • Indonesian: “Wellington”
  • Interlingue: “Wellington”
  • Irish: “Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara”
  • Irish: “Wellington”
  • Italian: “Wellington”
  • Japanese: “ウェリントン”
  • Japanese: “テ・ワンガヌイ＝ア＝タラ”
  • Japanese: “ポネケ”
  • Kabyle: “Wellington”
  • Kalaallisut: “Wellington”
  • Kannada: “ವೆಲಿಂಗ್ಟನ್”
  • Kannada: “ವೆಲ್ಲಿಂಗ್ಟನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Веллингтон”
  • Kazakh: “Уэллингтон”
  • Kirghiz: “Веллингтон”
  • Korean: “웰링턴 시”
  • Korean: “웰링턴”
  • Korean: “웰링톤”
  • Kotava: “Wellington”
  • Kurdish: “Wellington”
  • Ladino: “Wellington”
  • Latin: “Vellingtonia”
  • Latin: “Wellington”
  • Latvian: “Velingtona”
  • Latvian: “Wellington”
  • Ligurian: “Wellington”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Wellington”
  • Lithuanian: “Velingtonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Wellington”
  • Livvi: “Vellington”
  • Lombard: “Wellington”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wellington”
  • Macedonian: “Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara”
  • Macedonian: “Ueligitone”
  • Macedonian: “Velingtonas”
  • Macedonian: “Velingtono”
  • Macedonian: “Vellingtonia”
  • Macedonian: “Vellinqton”
  • Macedonian: “Welintòn”
  • Macedonian: “Wellingatun”
  • Macedonian: “Wellington”
  • Macedonian: “Weolingtūn”
  • Macedonian: “Ουέλλινγκτον”
  • Macedonian: “Велингтон”
  • Macedonian: “Велінгтан”
  • Macedonian: “Веллингтон”
  • Macedonian: “Веллінгтон”
  • Macedonian: “Вэлінгтан”
  • Macedonian: “Уелингтън”
  • Macedonian: “ველინგტონი”
  • Macedonian: “Վելինգտոն”
  • Macedonian: “װעלינגטאן”
  • Macedonian: “ולינגטון”
  • Macedonian: “ولینگتون”
  • Macedonian: “ويلينغتون”
  • Macedonian: “ویلنگٹن”
  • Macedonian: “ۋېللىنگتون”
  • Macedonian: “ዌሊንግተን”
  • Macedonian: “वेलिंगटन”
  • Macedonian: “वेलिंग्टन”
  • Macedonian: “ওয়েলিংটন”
  • Macedonian: “વેલિંગ્ટન”
  • Macedonian: “வெலிங்டன்”
  • Macedonian: “ವೆಲ್ಲಿಂಗ್ಟನ್”
  • Macedonian: “เวลลิงตัน”
  • Macedonian: “ཝེ་ལིང་ཐོན།”
  • Macedonian: “ဝယ်လင်တန်မြို့”
  • Macedonian: “웰링턴”
  • Macedonian: “ウェリントン”
  • Macedonian: “威靈頓”
  • Macedonian: “惠灵顿”
  • Maithili: “वेलिङ्गटन”
  • Malay: “Wellington, New Zealand”
  • Malay: “Wellington”
  • Malayalam: “വെല്ലിംഗ്ടൺ”
  • Maltese: “Wellington”
  • Maori: “Poneke”
  • Maori: “Pōneke”
  • Maori: “Takiwā o Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara”
  • Maori: “Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara”
  • Maori: “Te Whanganui-a-Tara”
  • Maori: “Wellington”
  • Maori: “Whanga-nui-a-Tara”
  • Maori: “Whanganui a Tara”
  • Maori: “Whanganui-a-Tara”
  • Maori: “Whanganui-ā-Tara”
  • Marathi: “वेलिंग्टन”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “ويلينگتون”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hiê-lìng-dóng”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Wellington”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wellington”
  • Minangkabau: “Wellington”
  • Mingrelian: “ველინგთონი”
  • Mingrelian: “ველინგტონი”
  • Mingrelian: “უელინგტონი”
  • Mongolian: “Веллингтон”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ويلينڭطون”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ويلينݣطون”
  • Nauru: “Wellington”
  • Navajo: “Tábąąh Naayolí”
  • Nepali: “वेलिङ्गटन”
  • Newari: “वेलिंगटन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wellington”
  • Northern Sami: “Wellington”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pōneke”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Te Whanganui-a-Tara”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wellington, New Zealand”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wellington, NZ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wellington”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Poneke”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Te Whanganui-a-Tara”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wellington”
  • Norwegian: “Wellington”
  • Novial: “Wellinton”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wellington”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wellingatun”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wellington”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wellingtūn (landscipe) on Nīwum Sǣlande”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Weolingtūn”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Willungtūn”
  • Ossetian: “Веллингтон”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੈਲਿੰਗਟਨ”
  • Persian: “ولینگتن”
  • Persian: “ولینگتون”
  • Piemontese: “Wellington”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Welingtan”
  • Polish: “Welington”
  • Polish: “Wellington”
  • Portuguese: “Wellington”
  • Pushto: “ولینګتون”
  • Quechua: “Welintawn”
  • Quechua: “Wellington”
  • Romanian: “Wellington”
  • Russian: “Веллингтон”
  • Russian: “Уэллингтон”
  • Sakizaya: “Wellington”
  • Samoan: “Ueligitone”
  • Santali: “ᱣᱮᱞᱤᱝᱴᱚᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Wellington”
  • Scots: “Ceety o Wellington”
  • Scots: “Wellington”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wellington, Sealainn Nuadh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wellington”
  • Serbian: “Wellington”
  • Serbian: “Велингтон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wellington”
  • Shona: “Wellington”
  • Sicilian: “Wellington”
  • Silesian: “Wellington”
  • Sindhi: “ويلنگٽن”
  • Sinhala: “වෙලිංටන්”
  • Sinhala: “වෙලින්ටන්, නවසීලන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “වෙලින්ටන්”
  • Slovak: “Wellington”
  • Slovenian: “Wellington”
  • Somali: “Wellington”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Wellington”
  • Spanish: “Pōneke”
  • Spanish: “Te Whanganui-a-Tara”
  • Spanish: “Wellington”
  • Sundanese: “Wellington”
  • Swahili: “Wellington”
  • Swedish: “Wellington på Nya Zeeland”
  • Swedish: “Wellington”
  • Tagalog: “Wellington”
  • Tahitian: “Veringitoni”
  • Tahitian: “Whanga-nui-a-Tara”
  • Tajik: “Веллингтон”
  • Talysh: “Vellington”
  • Tamil: “வெலிங்டன், நியூசிலாந்து”
  • Tamil: “வெலிங்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Wellington”
  • Tatar: “Веллиңтон”
  • Telugu: “వెలింగ్టన్”
  • Thai: “Wellington”
  • Thai: “เวลลิงตัน”
  • Tibetan: “ཝེ་ལིང་ཐོན་”
  • Tibetan: “ཝེ་ལིང་ཐོན།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Welingtan”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻUēlingatoni”
  • Turkish: “Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara”
  • Turkish: “Wellington, NZ”
  • Turkish: “Wellington”
  • Turkmen: “Wellington”
  • Udmurt: “Веллингтон”
  • Uighur: “ۋېللىنگتون”
  • Ukrainian: “Веллінгтон”
  • Ukrainian: “Веллінґтон”
  • Urdu: “ویلنگٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Uellington”
  • Uzbek: “Vellington”
  • Venetian: “Wellington”
  • Veps: “Vellington”
  • Vietnamese: “Wellington”
  • Volapük: “Wellington”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wellington”
  • Welsh: “Wellington”
  • Western Armenian: “Ուելինկթըն”
  • Western Frisian: “Wellington”
  • Western Panjabi: “ویلنگٹن”
  • Wu Chinese: “惠灵顿”
  • Yakut: “Уэллингтон”
  • Yiddish: “װעלינגטאן”
  • Yiddish: “װעלינגטאָן”
  • Yoruba: “Wellington”
  • Yue Chinese: “威靈頓”
  • Yue Chinese: “惠靈頓”
  • Zeeuws: “Wellington”
  • Zulu: “i-Wellington”
  • “Wellington”
  • “वेलिंग्टन”

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