Vakarai
Vakarai or Vaharai, The Sinhala name වාකර is pronounced 'vākara'. It is a town in the Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka, located about 65 km northwest of Batticaloa.- Type: Village with 1,000 residents
- Description: town in Sri Lanka
- Address: Trincomalee Batticaloa Road, Vakarai
Vakarai
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Vakarai Central, Koralai Pattu North Divisional Secretariat, Batticaloa District, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
8.13338° or 8° 8′ 0″ north
Longitude
81.436° or 81° 26′ 10″ east
Population
1,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
6MW34CMP+9C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Uzbek—“Vakarai” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Vakarai”
- Dutch: “Vakarai”
- Galician: “Vakarai”
- Irish: “Vakarai”
- Persian: “واکارای (سریلانکا)”
- Persian: “واکارای”
- Spanish: “Vakarai”
- Tamil: “வாகரை”
- Uzbek: “Vakarai (Shri-Lanka)”
- Uzbek: “Vakarai”
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