Kegalle
Kegalle is a large town in Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka. It is located on the Colombo–Kandy road, approximately 78 km from Colombo, 40 km from Kandy, 32 km from Kurunegala and 46 km from Avissavella.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 17,900 residents
- Description: town in Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Keballa” and “Kegalla”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Mary’s College and Kegalu Balika Vidyalaya.
St. Mary’s College
School
St. Mary's College is a multi-faith boys' school located in Kegalle, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka, adjacent to St. Mary's church. Established in 1867 by Benedictine missionaries, it was the first school in Kegalle.
Kegalu Balika Vidyalaya
School building
Kegalu Balika Vidyalaya is a National Buddhist girls' School in Kegalle, Sri Lanka. The school, the Kegalu Buddhist English Ladies College, was established on 2 November 1943 by the Buddhist Theosophical Society, in response to the prevailing English missionary school system.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Molagoda and Pinnawala.
Pinnawala
Village
Pinnawala is a village in Kegalle District of Sri Lanka and is around 90 km from the capital, Colombo. It is well known for its elephant orphanage.
Wanduradeniya
Hamlet
Wanduradeniya is a village located in Galigamuwa A.G.A Division in Kegalle District, Sri Lanka. Wanduradeniya is situated 8 km south of Kegalle.
Kegalle
- Category: locality
- Location: Golahela, Kegalle Divisional Secretariat, Kegalle District, Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
7.2532° or 7° 15′ 12″ northLongitude
80.34541° or 80° 20′ 44″ eastPopulation
17,900Elevation
176 metres (577 feet)United Nations Location Code
LK KEGOpen location code
6MV2783W+75OpenStreetMap ID
node 49374844OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kegalle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيجاللا”
- Asturian: “Kegalle”
- Bengali: “কিগল”
- Catalan: “Kegalle”
- Cebuano: “Kegalle”
- Chinese: “凱格勒”
- Chinese: “卡格拉”
- Danish: “Kegalle”
- Dutch: “Kegalle”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيجاللا”
- Finnish: “Kegalle”
- French: “Kegalle”
- Friulian: “Kegalle”
- German: “Kegalle”
- Greek: “Κεγκάλε”
- Gujarati: “કેગેલ”
- Hindi: “केगल”
- Indonesian: “Kegalle”
- Italian: “Kegalle”
- Japanese: “ケーガッラ”
- Kannada: “ಕೆಗಲ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “케갈레”
- Latvian: “Kegale”
- Lithuanian: “Kegalė”
- Malay: “Kegalle”
- Marathi: “केगल्ले”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kegalle”
- Persian: “کگاله”
- Polish: “Kegalle”
- Russian: “Кегалле”
- Sinhala: “කෑගල්ල”
- Spanish: “Kegalle”
- Swedish: “Kegalle”
- Tamil: “கேகாலை”
- Telugu: “కేగల్”
- Thai: “เคกาลล์”
- Turkish: “Kegalle”
- Ukrainian: “Кегалле”
- Urdu: “کاگال”
- Venetian: “Kegalle”
- Vietnamese: “Kegalle”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kegalle Main Bus Stand and Kegalle Bus Depot.
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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 “Kegalle”. Photo: Luboš Holič, CC BY-SA 3.0.