Anuradhapura District
Medawachchiya Divisional Secretariat
Katuwela

Medawachchiya

Medawachchiya is a town in the , of . Situated 27 km from , on the A9 - main road, it is 229 km from .
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  • Type: Town
  • Description: town in Sri Lanka
  • Also known as: “Madawachchiya” and “Railway Town”

Medawachchiya

Latitude
8.53878° or 8° 32′ 20″ north
Longitude
80.493° or 80° 29′ 35″ east
Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)
Open location code
6MW2GFQV+G5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7660344416
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1235510
Wiki­data ID
Q6805158
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Medawachchiya” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Railway Town”
  • Dutch: “Medawachchiya”
  • French: “Medawachchiya”
  • Irish: “Medawachchiya”
  • Japanese: “メダワッチチーヤ”
  • Russian: “Медаваччия”
  • Swedish: “Railway Town”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Medawachchiya”. Photo: Rehman, CC BY-SA 4.0.