Kandana
Kandana is a suburb of Gampaha in Western Province, Sri Lanka, 19 km north of the Colombo city centre. Due to the proximity to Negombo as well as the Bandaranaike International Airport, the suburb is a popular residential area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ja-Ela and Ragama.
Ja-Ela
Town
Photo: Danusker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ja-Ela is a town, located approximately 20 km north of the city centre of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Ja-Ela lies on the A3 road which overlaps with the Colombo – Katunayake Expressway at the Ja-Ela Interchange. Ja-Ela is situated 3½ km north of Kandana.
Ragama
Town
Ragama is an outer suburb of Colombo, located in the Gampaha District, Western Province, Sri Lanka. It is governed by the Ja-Ela Divisional Secretariat. Ragama is situated 4 km southeast of Kandana.
Mabola
Hamlet
Mabola or Mabole is a town and Urban Council in Gampaha District in the Western Province of Sri Lanka. With Wattala it forms Wattala–Mabola urban council. Mabola is situated 5 km south of Kandana.
Kandana
- Type: Town with 15,000 residents
- Description: suburb in Western Province, Sri Lanka
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Ja-Ela Division, Gampaha District, Western Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
7.04785° or 7° 2′ 52″ northLongitude
79.89706° or 79° 53′ 49″ eastPopulation
15,000Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
6JVX2VXW+4ROpenStreetMap ID
node 1896024292OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1241750Wikidata ID
Q6361287
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Tamil—“Kandana” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Kandana”
- Bengali: “কান্দনা”
- Bulgarian: “Кандана”
- Cebuano: “Kandana”
- Dutch: “Kandana”
- Irish: “Kandana”
- Japanese: “カンダナ”
- Persian: “کاندانا”
- Sinhala: “කඳාන”
- Spanish: “Kandana”
- Swedish: “Kandana”
- Tamil: “கந்தானை”
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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 “Kandana”. Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.