🇳🇿 Nueva Zelanda
Porirua
Porirua is a city in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand and is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area. The name 'Porirua' is a corruption of 'Pari-rua', meaning "the tide sweeping up both reaches". It almost completely surrounds Porirua Harbour at the southern end of the Kāpiti Coast. As of 2023, Porirua has a population of 62,400 people, and is a diverse city with 26.5% of the population identifying as Pasifika and 23.0% of the population identifying as Māori.
- Country
- 🇳🇿 Nueva Zelanda
- Elevation
- 0 m
- Population
- 61,500
- Time zone
- Pacific/Auckland
- Coordinates
- -41.13, 174.85
How far Porirua is from other cities in Nueva Zelanda
- Lower Hutt11 km✈ 46 min · 🚗 11 min
- Wellington18 km✈ 46 min · 🚗 18 min
- Palmerston North108 km✈ 53 min · 🚗 1 h 48 min
- Hastings237 km✈ 1 h 2 min · 🚗 3 h 57 min
- New Plymouth239 km✈ 1 h 2 min · 🚗 3 h 59 min
- Napier253 km✈ 1 h 3 min · 🚗 4 h 13 min
- Christchurch323 km✈ 1 h 9 min · 🚗 5 h 23 min
- Rotorua354 km✈ 1 h 11 min · 🚗 5 h 54 min
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