Pooneryn
Poonakary or Pooneryn, is a strategically important village situated on the Jaffna Lagoon, directly across from the Jaffna Peninsula in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.- Town with 10,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 5 metres (16 feet)
- Description: village in Sri Lanka
- Also known as“Poonakary”“Poonaryn”“Punakari”
Pooneryn
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Latitude
9.50532° or 9° 30′ 19″ north
Longitude
80.21279° or 80° 12′ 46″ east
Open location code
6MX2G647+44
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Ukrainian—“Pooneryn” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Pooneryn”
- French: “Poonakari”
- Irish: “Pooneryn”
- Japanese: “プーネリン”
- Persian: “پوناکاری”
- Sinhala: “පූනකරි”
- Tamil: “பூநகரி”
- Ukrainian: “Пунакарі”
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