Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Masterton
- Settlement.native_name
- Whakaoriori (Māori)
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Territorial authority district
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Masterton 02.JPG
- Settlement.image_shield
- File:Masterton CoA.png
- Settlement.image_map
- Masterton in the North Island.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Masterton district within the North Island
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- New Zealand
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Greater Wellington
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Masterton District
- Settlement.established_title
- Town founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1854
- Settlement.seat_type
- NZ Parliament
- Settlement.seat
- Ikaroa-Rāwhiti (Māori)Wairarapa
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
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Masterton () is a large town in the Greater Wellington Region of New Zealand that operates as the seat of the Masterton District (a territorial authority or local-government district). It is the largest town in the Wairarapa, a region separated from Wellington by the Remutaka ranges. It stands on the Waipoua stream between the Ruamāhunga and Waingawa Rivers – 100 kilometres north-east of Wellington and 40 kilometres south of Eketāhuna.
Masterton has an urban population of , and a district population of