Timaru (nzl)

Timaru

Timaru ranks 4,893rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Velika Gorica, Cervera, and East Prussia. Memorable people born in Timaru include Marc Ryan, Tom Walsh, and Danyon Loader. Timaru has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians. Timaru is located in New Zealand.

Timaru is a port city in the southern Canterbury Region of New Zealand, located 157 km (98 mi) southwest of Christchurch and about 196 km (122 mi) northeast of Dunedin on the eastern Pacific coast of the South Island. The Timaru urban area is home to 29,600 people, and is the largest urban area in South Canterbury, and the third-largest in the Canterbury Region overall, after Christchurch and Rolleston. The town is the seat of the Timaru District, which includes the surrounding rural area and the towns of Geraldine, Pleasant Point and Temuka, which combined have a total population of 50,100. Read more on Wikipedia