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. Wellington's central business district viewed from Mount VictoriaThe 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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Wellington

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City

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Wellington City is that part of the urban area of Wellington in New Zealand that is administered by Wellington City Council.

Lower Hutt

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Lower Hutt is a city of 112,000 people in the lower Hutt Valley, near Wellington, in the Greater Wellington region of the North Island of New Zealand.

Porirua

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Porirua is a city in the Wellington urban area in the southern North Island of New Zealand.

Destinations

Upper Hutt

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Upper Hutt is a city in the upper Hutt Valley, near Wellington, in the Greater Wellington region of the North Island of New Zealand.

Notable Places in the Area

Te Papa

Museum

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The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington.

Sky Stadium

Stadium

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Wellington Regional Stadium is a major sporting venue in Wellington, New Zealand.

National Library of New Zealand

Library

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The National Library of New Zealand is New Zealand's legal deposit library charged with the obligation to "enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations".

Localities in the Area

Karori

Suburb

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Karori is a suburb located at the western edge of the urban area of Wellington, New Zealand, 4 km from the city centre and is one of New Zealand's most populous suburbs, with a population of 15,320 in June 2022.

Te Aro

Suburb

Te Aro is an inner-city suburb of Wellington, New Zealand.

Mount Cook

Suburb

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Mount Cook is an inner suburb of the metropolitan area of Wellington, The North Island, New Zealand, 1.74 km dead south of Wellington's Central Business District.

Wellington

Type: City with 216,000 residents
Description: capital of New Zealand; urban area of the cities of Wellington, Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt, and Porirua
Categories: urban area, big city, second largest city and locality
Location: City, Wellington, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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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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Also Known As

Abkhazian: Wellington
Achinese: Wellington
Afrikaans: Wellington, Nieu-Seeland
Afrikaans: Wellington
Albanian: Uellington
Albanian: Wellington
Amharic: ዌሊንግተን
Arabic: Wellington
Arabic: ولينغتون
Arabic: ويلنغتون
Arabic: ويلينجتون
Arabic: ويلينغتون
Aragonese: Wellington
Armenian: Վելինգտոն
Asturian: Wellington
Azerbaijani: Vellinqton
Azerbaijani: Vellinqton şəhəri
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: ویلینگتۆن
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
English: Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara
English: Wellington, NZ
English: Wellington, New Zealand
English: Wellington metropolitan area
Esperanto: Velingtono
Esperanto: Wellington
Estonian: Wellington
Extremaduran: Wellington
Faroese: Wellington
Fiji Hindi: Wellington
Fijian: Weligitoni
Finnish: Wellington
French: District de Wellington
French: Wellington
French: Wellington City
French: Wellington District
Gagauz: 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: Welinakona
Hausa: Wellington
Hawaiian: Welinakona
Hebrew: וולינגטון
Hebrew: ולינגטון
Hindi: वेलिंगटन
Hindi: वेलिंग्टन
Hindi: वेलिन्ग्टन
Hungarian: Wellington
Icelandic: Wellington
Ido: Wellington
Inari Sami: Wellington
Indonesian: Wellington
Interlingue: Wellington
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: ವೆಲ್ಲಿಂಗ್ಟನ್
Kazakh: Веллингтон
Kazakh: Уэллингтон
Kirghiz: Веллингтон
Korean: 웰링턴
Korean: 웰링턴 시
Korean: 웰링톤
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: Веллингтон
Macedonian: Веллінгтон
Macedonian: Вэлінгтан
Macedonian: Горад Велінгтан
Macedonian: Уелингтън
Macedonian: Վելինգտոն
Macedonian: ולינגטון
Macedonian: װעלינגטאן
Macedonian: ولینگتون
Macedonian: ويلينغتون
Macedonian: ویلنگٹن
Macedonian: ۋېللىنگتون
Macedonian: वेलिंगटन
Macedonian: वेलिंग्टन
Macedonian: ওয়েলিংটন
Macedonian: વેલિંગ્ટન
Macedonian: வெலிங்டன்
Macedonian: ವೆಲ್ಲಿಂಗ್ಟನ್
Macedonian: เวลลิงตัน
Macedonian: ཝེ་ལིང་ཐོན།
Macedonian: ဝယ်လင်တန်မြို့
Macedonian: ველინგტონი
Macedonian: ዌሊንግተን
Macedonian: ウェリントン
Macedonian: 威靈頓
Macedonian: 惠灵顿
Macedonian: 웰링턴
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-ā-Tara
Maori: Whanganui a Tara
Marathi: वेलिंग्टन
Min Dong Chinese: Hiê-lìng-dóng
Min Dong Chinese: Wellington
Min Nan Chinese: Wellington
Mingrelian: ველინგთონი
Mingrelian: ველინგტონი
Mongolian: Веллингтон
Moroccan Arabic: ويلينڭطون
Moroccan Arabic: ويلينݣطون
Nauru: Wellington
Navajo: Tábąąh Naayolí
Nepali: वेलिंगटन
Nepali: वेलिङ्गटन
Newari: वेलिंगटन
Northern Frisian: Wellington
Northern Sami: Wellington
Norwegian: Wellington
Norwegian Bokmål: Wellington
Norwegian Nynorsk: Poneke
Norwegian Nynorsk: Te Whanganui-a-Tara
Norwegian Nynorsk: 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: Wellington, New Zealand
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
Sinhala: වෙලිංටන්
Sinhala: වෙලින්ටන්
Slovak: Wellington
Slovenian: Wellington
Somali: Wellington
Spanish: Wellington
Spanish: Wellington (Nueva Zelanda)
Sundanese: Wellington
Swahili: Wellington
Swedish: Wellington
Swedish: Wellington på Nya Zeeland
Tagalog: Wellington
Tahitian: Veringitoni
Tahitian: Whanga-nui-a-Tara
Tajik: Веллингтон
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
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: װעלינגטאָן
Yiddish: װעלינגטאן
Yoruba: Wellington
Yue Chinese: 威靈頓
Yue Chinese: 惠靈頓
Zeeuws: Wellington
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