Ampara
Ampara is the main town of Ampara District, governed by an Urban Council. It is located in the Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, about 360 km east of Colombo and approximately 60 km south of Batticaloa.
- Type: City with 110,000 residents
- Description: town in the Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Amparai” and “Ampari”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Irakkamam.
Irakkamam
Village
Irakkamam or Eragama is a town located in the Eragama Divisional Secretariat, Ampara District, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka which is an ancient village in south eastern as well. Irakkamam is situated 8 km southeast of Ampara.
Ampara
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Jayawardhanapura, Ampara, Ampara District, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
7.29781° or 7° 17′ 52″ north
Longitude
81.67902° or 81° 40′ 45″ east
Population
110,000
Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)
IATA airport code
ADP
United Nations Location Code
LK AMP
Open location code
6MV37MXH+4J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Ampara” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أمبارا”
- Bengali: “আমপারা”
- Cebuano: “Ampara”
- Chinese: “安帕拉”
- Chinese: “安帕賴”
- Danish: “Ampara”
- Dutch: “Ampara”
- Egyptian Arabic: “امبارا”
- Finnish: “Ampara”
- French: “Ampara”
- German: “Ampara”
- Greek: “Αμπάρα”
- Gujarati: “અમ્પારા”
- Gujarati: “એમ્પારા”
- Hindi: “अम्पारा”
- Hungarian: “Ampara”
- Indonesian: “Ampara”
- Irish: “Ampara”
- Italian: “Ampara”
- Japanese: “アンパーラ”
- Kannada: “ಅಂಪರ”
- Kannada: “ಅಂಪಾರ”
- Korean: “암파라”
- Latvian: “Ampara”
- Lithuanian: “Ampara”
- Malay: “Ampara”
- Marathi: “अँपरा”
- Mingrelian: “ამპარა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ampara”
- Persian: “امپرا”
- Polish: “Ampara”
- Russian: “Ампара”
- Sinhala: “අම්පාර”
- Spanish: “Ampara”
- Swedish: “Ampara”
- Tamil: “அம்பாறை”
- Telugu: “అంపారా”
- Thai: “อัมปารา”
- Turkish: “Ampara”
- Ukrainian: “Ампара”
- Urdu: “امپارا”
- Uzbek: “Ampara”
- Vietnamese: “Ampara”
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