Kokkuvil
Kokuvil is a suburb in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna. Kokkuvil has about 7,000 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 7,000 residents
- Description: town in Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Kokuvil”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kokkuvil Hindu College and Nallur Kandaswamy temple.
Kokkuvil Hindu College
School
Kokuvil Hindu College is a provincial school in Kokkuvil, Sri Lanka. During colonial times, Christianity had a great influence on people and education was in the hands of Missionaries.
Nallur Kandaswamy temple
Hindu temple
Photo: Thivagaranp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil is a Hindu temple, located in Nallur, Northern Province, Sri Lanka. The presiding deity is Murugan in the form of the divine spear vel in the sanctum, the primary shrine, and in other forms, namely, Shanmugar, Muthukumaraswami, Valli Kanthar with consorts Valli and Deivayanai, and Dandayuddhapani, sans consorts in secondary shrines in the temple. Nallur Kandaswamy temple is situated 3 km southeast of Kokkuvil.
Inuvil railway station
Railway station
Inuvil railway station is a railway station in the village of Inuvil 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. Inuvil railway station is situated 3 km north of Kokkuvil.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Inuvil and Suthumalai.
Inuvil
Village
Photo: T.kiresan, Public domain.
Inuvil is a town in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka, about 5 miles north of the city of Jaffna. It is located on the Jaffna-Kangesanthurai road. This road divides the town into two parts East Inuvil and West Inuvil.
Suthumalai
Village
Suthumalai is a village located in the northern Jaffna District of Sri Lanka. The village is divided into two Village officer division, and has a combined population of 3770 according to 2012 census. Suthumalai is situated 3 km northwest of Kokkuvil.
Nallur
Town
Nallur is an affluent suburb in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is located 3 km south from Jaffna city centre. Nallur is most famous for Nallur Kandaswamy temple, one of Sri Lanka's most sacred place of pilgrimage for Sri Lankan Hindus. Nallur is situated 3 km south of Kokkuvil.
Kokkuvil
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kokuvil Centre East, Nallur Divisional Secretariat, Jaffna District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
9.69879° or 9° 41′ 56″ northLongitude
80.01903° or 80° 1′ 9″ eastPopulation
7,000Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)Open location code
6MX2M2X9+GJOpenStreetMap ID
node 4469447634OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
1239705Wikidata ID
Q6426689
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Tamil—“Kokkuvil” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Кокувил”
- Cebuano: “Kokkuvil”
- Dutch: “Kokkuvil”
- Irish: “Kokkuvil”
- Sinhala: “කොකුවිල”
- Swedish: “Kokkuvil”
- Tamil: “கொக்குவில்”
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