Gampola
Gampola is a town located in Kandy District, in Sri Lanka's Central Province. The town is governed by an Urban Council. Gampola was made the capital of the island by King Buwanekabahu IV, who ruled for four years in the mid-fourteenth century.- Town with about 27,700 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 490 metres (1,610 feet)
- …is also known as “Gampola Town”
- Description: city in Central Province, Sri Lanka
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Gampola
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Latitude
7.16365° or 7° 9′ 49″ north
Longitude
80.57027° or 80° 34′ 13″ east
Open location code
6MV25H7C+F4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place = town
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Gampola” goes by many names.
غامبولاArabic
كَنْبَلَةArabic
গাম্পোলাBengali
GampolaCatalan
GampolaCebuano
加姆波勒Chinese
甘波罗Chinese
甘波羅Chinese
GampolaDanish
GampolaDutch
جامبولاEgyptian Arabic
GampolaFinnish
GampolaFriulian
გამპოლაGeorgian
ΓκαμπόλαGreek
ગેમ્પોલાGujarati
गाम्पोलाHindi
GampolaIndonesian
GampolaIrish
GampolaItalian
ガンポラJapanese
ಕಂಬಳKannada
ಗಂಪೊಲKannada
갬폴라Korean
GampolaLatvian
GampolaLithuanian
GampolaMalay
गॅम्पालाMarathi
GampolaNorwegian Bokmål
گرامپولاPersian
GampolaPolish
ГамполаRussian
ගම්පොලSinhala
GampolaSwedish
கம்பளைTamil
கம்போலாTamil
గంపోలాTelugu
คัมปาฮาThai
GambpolaTurkish
ГамполаUkrainian
گامپولاUrdu
GampolaVenetian
GampolaVietnamese
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