Jaffna District
Valikamam South Divisional Secretariat
Chunnakam Town Centre

Chunnakam

Chunnakam is a town, located 9.7 km north of . It is one of the important commercial centres in Jaffna. The original name of the town was Mayilani.
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  • Type: Town with 15,000 residents
  • Description: town in Sri Lanka
  • Also known as: “Chunakam”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chunnakam railway station and Uthuru Janani Power Station.

Railway station
is a railway station in the town of Chunnakam in northern . Owned by Sri Lanka Railways, the state-owned railway operator, the station is part of the Northern Line which links the with the capital .

Power station
The is a 24-megawatt thermal power station commissioned on 1 January 2013, in Chunnakam, . The power station consists of three diesel-run generating units with a capacity of 8 MW each, producing 176 GWh annually.

Power station
The , is a 36 MW fuel-oil burning power station built in Chunnakam, , in . The power station was built after the Northern Power company won a Ceylon Electricity Board tender to urgently set up a power station in the region in response to the 1990s/2000s power crisis.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mallakam and Uduvil.

Village
is a town in northern located approximately 10 kilometres north of the city of . The town is divided into three Village Officer Divisions whose combined population was 6,834 at the 2012 census.

Village
is an agricultural village of about 32.7 square kilometers situated along the KKS Road at about five miles to the North of city, .

Village
is a town in Northern , . It is located 9 km from .

Chunnakam

Latitude
9.74303° or 9° 44′ 35″ north
Longitude
80.02883° or 80° 1′ 44″ east
Population
15,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Open location code
6MX2P2VH+6G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 324707634
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1249037
Wiki­data ID
Q5116450
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Tamil—“Chunnakam” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Чунакам”
  • Cebuano: “Chunnakam”
  • Dutch: “Chunnakam”
  • German: “Chunnakam”
  • Irish: “Chunnakam”
  • Sinhala: “හුණුගම”
  • Swedish: “Chunnakam”
  • Tamil: “சுன்னாகம்”

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