This is a list of localities in Waikato as defined by government agency Statistics New Zealand in 2013, listed by the territorial authorities to which each locality belongs. Waikato is a region of New Zealand in the central North Island which reaches from coast to coast and from Coromandel Peninsula in the north to Lake Taupo and King Country in the south. Many boundaries and names were changed in the 2018 census. It is bordered by Auckland to the north, Bay of Plenty to the east, and Taranaki, Manawatū-Whanganui and Hawke's Bay to the south.