Fun fact 1 about Porirua
city
The name 'Porirua' may represent a variant of 'pari-rua', meaning 'two tides'.
Porirua
New Zealand
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city
Porirua
New Zealand
Country
New Zealand
Population
61.6K
Coordinates
-41.13, 174.84
Porirua, a city in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand, 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".
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Photo: Aidan Wojtas from Wellington, New Zealand · CC BY-SA 2.0