Porirua
Porirua is a city in the Wellington urban area in the southern North Island of New Zealand. Porirua's central business district is about 20 km north of the Wellington City CBD.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 61,900 residents
- Description: city in New Zealand
- Neighbors: City, Lower Hutt, and Upper Hutt
Places of Interest
Highlights include Porirua railway station and Pātaka Art + Museum.
Porirua railway station
Railway station
Porirua railway station is an important intermediate station in New Zealand on the Kāpiti Line from Wellington and is part of Wellington's Metlink suburban rail network operated by Transdev Wellington.
Pātaka Art + Museum
Museum
Photo: Pakoire, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pātaka Museum of Arts and Cultures, often stylised as Pātaka Art + Museum, is a municipal museum and art gallery in Porirua City, New Zealand. Te Marae o Te Umu Kai o Hau is the name of the building where Pātaka is located and opened in 1998.
Te Rauparaha Arena
Sports venue
Photo: Pakoire, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Te Rauparaha Arena is a multi-purpose indoor sports and entertainment centre, with pools, Dash Swim School, a fitness centre, and indoor sports stadium and venues, in Porirua, New Zealand.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rānui and Cannons Creek.
Rānui
Suburb
Rānui is a suburb of Porirua City approximately 21 kilometres north of Wellington in New Zealand. Rānui means midday in the Māori language.
Cannons Creek
Suburb
Cannons Creek is a suburb of Porirua City approximately 22km north of Wellington in New Zealand.
Elsdon
Suburb
Elsdon is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Porirua located immediately to the west to of the city's CBD. The area was named after Elsdon Best, a historian who studied archaeological sites in the area.
Porirua
- Category: locality
- Location: Porirua City, Wellington, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.13542° or 41° 8′ 8″ southLongitude
174.83978° or 174° 50′ 23″ eastPopulation
61,900Elevation
58 metres (190 feet)United Nations Location Code
NZ PRUOpen location code
4VCPVR7Q+RWOpenStreetMap ID
node 57805233OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Porirua” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوريريوا”
- Asturian: “Porirua”
- Basque: “Porirua”
- Bengali: “পরিরুয়া”
- Catalan: “Porirua”
- Cebuano: “Porirua”
- Chinese: “普罗鲁阿”
- Chinese: “波里魯阿”
- Chinese: “波里鲁阿”
- Danish: “Porirua”
- Dutch: “Porirua”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوريريوا”
- Esperanto: “Porirua”
- Finnish: “Porirua”
- French: “District de Porirua”
- French: “Porirua District”
- French: “Porirua”
- Georgian: “პორირუა”
- German: “Porirua”
- Greek: “Πορίρουα”
- Gujarati: “પોરુરુઆ”
- Hebrew: “פורירואה”
- Hindi: “पोरिरुआ”
- Hindi: “पोरीरुआ”
- Hungarian: “Porirua”
- Indonesian: “Porirua”
- Italian: “Porirua”
- Japanese: “ポリルア”
- Japanese: “ポリルア市”
- Kannada: “ಪೋರಿರುವಾ”
- Korean: “포리루아”
- Latvian: “Porirua”
- Lithuanian: “Porirua”
- Malagasy: “Porirua”
- Malay: “Porirua”
- Maori: “Pari-ā-Rua”
- Maori: “Porirua”
- Marathi: “पोरुरूआ”
- Northern Frisian: “Porirua”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Porirua”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Porirua”
- Norwegian: “Porirua”
- Polish: “Porirua”
- Portuguese: “Porirua”
- Romanian: “Porirua”
- Russian: “Порируа”
- Samoan: “Porirua”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Porirua”
- Sinhala: “පොරිරුවා, නවසීලන්තය”
- Sinhala: “පොරිරුවා”
- Spanish: “Porirua”
- Swahili: “Porirua”
- Swedish: “Porirua”
- Tamil: “போரிருஆ”
- Telugu: “పోరీరువా”
- Thai: “โปริรูอา”
- Turkish: “Porirua”
- Ukrainian: “Поріруа”
- Urdu: “پوریروا”
- Vietnamese: “Porirua”
- Volapük: “Porirua”
- Yue Chinese: “波里魯阿”
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