Dondra
Dondra is a settlement on the extreme southernmost tip of Sri Lanka, in the Indian Ocean near Matara, Southern Province, Sri Lanka. The Dondra Head Lighthouse, ruins of several Hindu shrines of Tenavaram and a Vihara are located in the vicinity.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 15,000 residents
- Description: settlement in Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Deundara Thuduwa” and “Dondra West”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dondra Head Lighthouse.
Dondra Head Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Charaka Ranasinghe, CC BY 2.0.
Dondra Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on Dondra Head, Dondra, the southernmost point in Sri Lanka and is Sri Lanka's tallest lighthouse, and also one of the tallest in South East Asia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Matara and Walgama.
Matara
Photo: KingAlawaka, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Matara is a city in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. The Southern Province consists of three districts and the city of Matara lies between Galle and Hambantota which are the other districts of Southern Province.
Walgama
Town
Walgama is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located in Matara District, Southern Province. Walgama is situated 8 km west of Dondra.
Dondra
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Southern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
5.9281° or 5° 55′ 41″ northLongitude
80.58936° or 80° 35′ 22″ eastPopulation
15,000Open location code
6MQ2WHHQ+6POpenStreetMap ID
node 77369078OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Dondra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دوندرا”
- Bengali: “ডোন্ড্রা”
- Burmese: “ဒွန်ဒရာ”
- Dutch: “Dondra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دوندرا”
- German: “Dondra”
- Indonesian: “Dondra”
- Japanese: “ドンドラヘッド”
- Sinhala: “දෙවිනුවර”
- Sinhala: “දෙවුන්දර”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dondra”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Devinuwara Sports Ground and Devinuwara Sri Vishnu Maha Devalaya.
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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 “Dondra”. Photo: Adbar, CC BY-SA 3.0.