Kuppilan
Kuppuzhaan or Kuppilan is a village in the Valikaamam South division of Jaffna district. The toponym nowadays is often written as Kuppizhaan. It is an agricultural village consisting mainly of vegetable farms, Tobacco, Palmyra gardens.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chunnakam railway station and Northern Power Station.
Chunnakam railway station
Railway station
Chunnakam railway station is a railway station in the town of Chunnakam in northern Sri Lanka. Owned by Sri Lanka Railways, the state-owned railway operator, the station is part of the Northern Line which links the north with the capital Colombo.
Northern Power Station
Power station
The Northern Power Station, is a 36 MW fuel-oil burning power station built in Chunnakam, Jaffna District, in Sri Lanka. The power station was built after the Northern Power company won a Ceylon Electricity Board tender to urgently set up a power station in the region in response to the 1990s/2000s power crisis.
Uthuru Janani Power Station
Power station
The Uthuru Janani Power Station is a 24-megawatt thermal power station commissioned on 1 January 2013, in Chunnakam, Sri Lanka. The power station consists of three diesel-run generating units with a capacity of 8 MW each, producing 176 GWh annually.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chunnakam and Urumpirai.
Chunnakam
Town
Chunnakam is a town, located 9.7 km north of Jaffna. It is one of the important commercial centres in Jaffna. The original name of the town was Mayilani.
Urumpirai
Village
Urumpirai is a town in Northern Jaffna District, Sri Lanka. It is located 9 km from Jaffna.
Mallakam
Village
Mallakam is a town in northern Sri Lanka located approximately 10 kilometres north of the city of Jaffna. The town is divided into three Village Officer Divisions whose combined population was 6,834 at the 2012 census. Mallakam is situated 3 km northwest of Kuppilan.
Kuppilan
- Type: Locality
- Description: town in Sri Lanka
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Chunnakam Town South, Valikamam South Divisional Secretariat, Jaffna District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Tamil—“Kuppilan” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Kuppilan”
- Irish: “Kuppilan”
- Persian: “کوپیلان”
- Tamil: “குப்பிளான்”
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Highlights include Panaka Kulam and Jaffna International Airport.
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