Timaru
Timaru is a city of 28,900 as of June 2023 on the South Island of New Zealand, on the east coast at Caroline Bay. It is a seaport and the second largest city in the Canterbury region, and is about halfway between Christchurch and Dunedin.Photo: Thomei08, Public domain.
Photo: Heather Rainbow, CC0.
Notable Places in the Area
Sacred Heart Basilica
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Sacred Heart Basilica or Timaru Basilica, is a Catholic church in Timaru, New Zealand.
South Canterbury Museum
Photo: Karora, Public domain.
South Canterbury Museum is a museum located in Timaru, New Zealand and owned by the Timaru District Council.
St Mary's Church
Photo: jokertrekker, CC BY 3.0.
St Mary's Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church located in Timaru, in the Canterbury region on the South Island of New Zealand.
Localities in the Area
Highfield
Highfield is a suburb of Timaru, in the South Canterbury district and Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island.West End
West End is a suburb of Timaru, in the South Canterbury area and Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island.Watlington
Watlington is a suburb of Timaru, in the South Canterbury area and Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island.Timaru
- Type: Town with 28,600 residents
- Description: town in New Zealand's South Island
- Category: locality
- Location: Timaru District, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-44.393° or 44° 23' 35" southLongitude
171.251° or 171° 15' 4" eastPopulation
28,600Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)IATA airport code
TIUOpen Location Code
4V7HJ742+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
node 410464091OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2181133Wikidata ID
Q1016574Timaru Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Timaru
- Albanian: Timaru
- Arabic: تيمارو
- Aragonese: Timaru
- Asturian: Timaru
- Basque: Timaru
- Bavarian: Timaru
- Belarusian: Тымару
- Bengali: টিমারু
- Bosnian: Timaru
- Catalan: Timaru
- Cebuano: Timaru
- Chinese: 提瑪魯
- Chinese: 提馬魯
- Chinese: 蒂馬魯
- Chinese: 蒂马鲁
- Croatian: Timaru
- Czech: Timaru
- Danish: Timaru
- Dutch: Timaru
- Egyptian Arabic: تيمارو
- Esperanto: Timaru
- Estonian: Timaru
- Faroese: Timaru
- Finnish: Timaru
- French: District de Timaru
- French: Timaru
- French: Timaru District
- Galician: Timaru
- Georgian: ტიმარუ
- German: Timaru
- German: Timaru-Distrikt
- Greek: Τιμαρού
- Gujarati: તિમારુ
- Hebrew: טימרו
- Hindi: तिमुरु
- Hungarian: Timaru
- Icelandic: Timaru
- Indonesian: Timaru
- Irish: Timaru
- Italian: Distretto di Timaru
- Italian: Timaru
- Japanese: ティマル
- Japanese: ティマルー
- Kannada: ಟಿಮಾರು
- Korean: 팀아루
- Latvian: Timaru
- Lithuanian: Timaru
- Low German: Timaru
- Lower Sorbian: Timaru
- Luxembourgish: Timaru
- Malay: Timaru, New Zealand
- Maori: Te Tihi-o-Maru
- Maori: Timaru
- Marathi: तिमुरु
- Minangkabau: Timaru
- Northern Frisian: Timaru
- Norwegian: Timaru
- Norwegian Bokmål: Timaru
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Timaru
- Persian: تیمارو
- Polish: Timaru
- Portuguese: Timaru
- Romanian: Timaru
- Romansh: Timaru
- Russian: Тимару
- Scots: Timaru
- Scottish Gaelic: Timaru, Sealainn Nuadh
- Scottish Gaelic: Timaru
- Serbo-Croatian: Timaru
- Sinhala: ටිමාරු
- Slovak: Timaru
- Slovenian: Timaru, Nova Zelandija
- Spanish: Timaru
- Swedish: Timaru
- Swiss German: Timaru
- Tamil: டிமாறு
- Telugu: తిమారు
- Thai: ทิมารุ
- Turkish: Timaru
- Ukrainian: Тімару
- Upper Sorbian: Timaru
- Urdu: تیمارو
- Vietnamese: Timaru
- Welsh: Timaru
- Western Panjabi: ضلع تیمارو
- Timaru City
- 티머루
Other Places Named Timaru
In the Area
- Maori HillSuburb
- ParksideSuburb
- KensingtonSuburb
- WaimataitaiSuburb
- SmithfieldSuburb
- GrantleaSuburb
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Timaru. Photo: Heather Rainbow, CC0.