Waikato
Coromandel Peninsula
Thames-Coromandel District

Whitianga

Whitianga is a seaside town in the middle of Mercury Bay on the east side of the in northern . It has a deep water harbour from which cruising boats depart for trips around the scenic Mercury Bay coves and cliffs to Te Whanganui-A-Hei Marine Reserve and its abundant sea-life.
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  • Type: Town with 6,330 residents
  • Description: town in Thames-Coromandel District, New Zealand
  • Also known as: “Mercury Bay”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cooks Beach.

Village
is a town on a three-kilometre white-sand beach on the of New Zealand. To its north is Cooks Bay, and beyond that is . is situated 3½ km east of Whitianga.

Whitianga

Latitude
-36.8332° or 36° 49′ 60″ south
Longitude
175.7025° or 175° 42′ 9″ east
Population
6,330
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
WTZ
United Nations Location Code
NZ WTZ
Open location code
4VMQ5P82+PX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 254273924
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2179103
Wiki­data ID
Q1375183
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“Whitianga” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Whitianga”
  • Basque: “Whitianga”
  • Catalan: “Whitianga”
  • Cebuano: “Whitianga”
  • Chinese: “惠蒂扬阿”
  • Chinese: “菲蒂昂格”
  • Dutch: “Whitianga”
  • French: “Whitianga”
  • German: “Whitianga”
  • Italian: “Whitianga”
  • Japanese: “フィティアンガ”
  • Korean: “휘티앙가”
  • Malay: “Whitianga”
  • Maori: “Whitianga”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Whitianga”
  • Polish: “Whitianga”
  • Turkish: “Whitianga”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Whitianga”. Photo: Poliocretes, CC BY-SA 3.0.