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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 10,000 residents
- Description: village in Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Poonakary”, “Poonaryn”, and “Punakari”
Pooneryn
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Madduvilnadu West, Poonakary Divisional Secretariat, Kilinochchi District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
9.50431° or 9° 30′ 16″ northLongitude
80.21241° or 80° 12′ 45″ eastPopulation
10,000Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)Open location code
6MX2G636+PXOpenStreetMap ID
node 1835809125OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1229821Wikidata ID
Q3397860
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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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