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Te reo Māori place names

The New Zealand Gazetteer lists Māori and all official place names of New Zealand. You can identify Māori place names with macrons by downloading a .csv file from the Gazetteer.

Takiwā

• Aotearoa, (New Zealand)
• Murihiku, (Southland)
• Muriwhenua, (far North, i.e. north of Kaitaia)
• Rakiura, (Stewart Island)
• Rekohu, (Chatham Island)
• Te Hiku o te Ika, (Northland)
• Te Ika-a-Māui, (North Island)
• Te Matau‑a‑Māui, (Hawke’s Bay)
• Te Moana-a-Toitehuatahi, (Bay of Plenty)
• Te Tai o Aorere, (Tasman)
• Te Tai o Poutini, (West Coast)
• Te Tai Rāwhiti, (East Coast)
• Te Tai Tokerau, (Northland)
• Te Tauihu o te Waka a Māui, (Marlborough)
• Te Upoko-o-te-ika-a-Māui
• Te Waipounamu, (South Island)
• Waitaha, (Canterbury)

Te Ika-a-Māui

Te Upoko o te Ika

• Awa Kairangi, Te; (Hutt Valley)
• Kāpiti
• Mākara Beach/Hill/Locality/River/Stream
• Mākaro, (Ward Island)
• Mātakitaki-a-Kupe, (Cape Palliser)
• Matiu, (Somes Island)
• Māwaihākona, (Trentham)
• Ngā Puna Waiora, (Newtown)
• Ōhāriu
• Ōhau, Locality/Bay/Gorge/Hill/Point/River/Stream
• Ōkiwi, (Eastbourne)
• Ōnoke, Lake
• Ōpau, Bay
• Ōrongorongo, Hill/River
• Ōtaki, Town/Beach/Forks/River
• Ōtari
• Ōwhiro, Bay/Stream
• Paekākāriki, Town/Hill
• Papakōwhai
• Pari-ā-Rua, (Porirua)
• Pariwhero, (Red Rocks)
• Pāuatahanui
• Pukeahurangi/Jumbo
• Pukeamoamo/Mitre
• Rangituhi/Colonial Knob
• Remutaka, Hill/Range/Stream/Forest Park
• Rimurapa, (Sinclair Head)
• Taitā
• Taitoko, (Levin)
• Tangi te Keo; (Mt Victoria)
• Tarikākā, (Mt Kaukau)
• Turanga-rere, (Brooklyn)
• Taupō, Bay/Creek/Hill/Point/Stream/Swamp
• Tauwharenīkau, Hill/River/Locality
• Te Papa-i-Oea, (Palmerston North)
• Te Whakatūrākau, Stream; (Atiwhakatu)
• Te Whanganui-a-Tara, (Wellington)
• Tītahi Bay
• Tōtara, Bush/Creek/Flats/Lagoon
• Tuhirangi, (Mt Barton)
• Tūrere Stream
• Waitārere
• Whakatīkei, River (Upper Hutt)

Te toenga o te Ika

• Ahukawakawa, (Sphagnum Moss Swamp, Taranaki)
• Hangatāhua River, (Stony River)
• Kaweka, Forest Park
• Kōkōwai Stream, (Oakura River, Taranaki)
• Manawatū
• Ngāuruhoe
• Panitahi, (Fanthams Peak)
• Pouākai
• Tāmaki Makaurau, (Auckland)
• Taranaki Mounga
• Te Ikapārua River, (Warea River, Taranaki)
• Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki (National Park)
• Te Rere-o-Kāpuni, (Dawson Falls)
• Te Rere-o-Tahurangi, (Bells Falls)
• Te Rerenga Wairua, (Cape Rēinga)
• Te Tāhuna-o-Tūtawa, (Warwick Castle, Taranaki Mounga)
• Te Umu-o-Taomanawa, (The Dome, Taranaki Mounga)
• Tūranga‑nui‑a‑Kiwa, (Gisborne)
• Tūrangi
• Tūroa
• Uawa, (Tolaga Bay)

Te Waipounamu

• Aoraki, (Mt Cook)
• Hāwea, Conservation Park/Flat/Island/Lake/River
• Hāwera, Lake/River
• Invercargill (Waihōpai)
• Kawatiri, (Westport, Buller River)
• Maniniaro / Angelus Peak, Nelson Lakes National Park
• Motu-pōhue (Bluff)
• Māwhera, (Greymouth))
• Poukirikiri / Travers Saddle, Nelson Lakes National Park
• Pōurangahau / Mt Robert, Nelson Lakes National Park
• Rotomairewhenua / Blue Lake, Nelson Lakes National Park
• Rotomaninitua / Lake Angelus, Nelson Lakes National Park
• Rotopōhueroa / Lake Constance, Nelson Lakes National Park
• Te Horowai / Speargrass, Nelson Lakes National Park
• Te One-Tahua, (Farewell spit)
• Tititea, (Mt Aspiring)
• Tāhuna, (Queenstwon)
• Tōtaranui
• Waiharakeke, Te (Blenheim)
• Waihōpai, (Invercargill)
• Whakatū (Nelson)
• Wānaka, Lake
• Ōkārito
• Ōtautahi, (Christchurch)
• Ōtepoti, (Dunedin)