Ratnapura District
Ratnapura
Sri Palabaddala

Adam’s Peak

Adam's Peak is a 2,243-metre-tall conical sacred mountain located in central . It is well known for the Sri Pada, a 1.8 m rock formation resembling a footprint near the summit whose name is also used for the mountain itself.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,243 metres
  • Description: mountain in Sri Lanka
  • Also known as: “Samanala Kanda”, “Siri Pada”, “Sri Paadaya Peak”, “Sri Pada”, and “Sri Pada Foot Print”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dalhousie and Maskeliya.

Town
Photo: Saqib, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, Nallathanniya or Delhousie is a village in , . The village is two hours from Hatton city and situated en route to Adam's Peak. The village borrowed its name from a nearby tea estate.

Town
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in the of . It is the site of the 1974 crash of Martinair Flight 138, the worst air disaster in Sri Lanka. is situated 8 km east of Adam’s Peak.

Adam’s Peak

Latitude
6.80942° or 6° 48′ 34″ north
Longitude
80.49939° or 80° 29′ 58″ east
Elevation
2,243 metres (7,359 feet)
Open location code
6MR2RF5X+QQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 254036900
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
1252292
Wiki­data ID
Q60789
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Adam’s Peak” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل الرحون”
  • Basque: “Adamen mendia”
  • Bengali: “আদম চূড়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Адамов връх”
  • Burmese: “အဒမ်တောင်ထိပ်”
  • Catalan: “Pic d’Adam”
  • Cebuano: “Adam’s Peak”
  • Chinese: “亚当峰”
  • Croatian: “Sri Pada”
  • Czech: “Adamova hora”
  • Czech: “Srí Pada”
  • Czech: “Šrí Páda”
  • Dutch: “Adam’s Peak”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل الرحون”
  • Finnish: “Aataminhuippu”
  • Finnish: “Adams Peak”
  • Finnish: “Samanala”
  • Finnish: “Sri Pada”
  • French: “pic d’Adam”
  • French: “Pic d’Adam”
  • French: “Sri Pada”
  • German: “Adam’s Peak”
  • German: “Adamspik”
  • German: “Sri Pada”
  • Greek: “Κορυφή του Αδάμ”
  • Greek: “Πόδι του Αδάμ”
  • Hebrew: “פסגת אדם”
  • Hindi: “आदम की चोटी”
  • Hungarian: “Sri Pada”
  • Indonesian: “Puncak Adam”
  • Italian: “Adam’s peak”
  • Italian: “Picco di Adamo”
  • Italian: “Sri Pada”
  • Japanese: “アダムズ・ピーク”
  • Japanese: “アダムスピーク”
  • Japanese: “アダムズピーク”
  • Japanese: “スリー・パーダ”
  • Ladin: “Adam’s Peak”
  • Lithuanian: “Adomo kalnas”
  • Lithuanian: “Adomo viršukalnė”
  • Lithuanian: “Adomo viršūnė”
  • Malay: “Puncak Adam”
  • Malayalam: “Adam’s Peak”
  • Malayalam: “ആദം കൊടുമുടി”
  • Malayalam: “ശ്രീപാദം”
  • Minangkabau: “Puncak Adam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Adam’s Peak”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Adamspiggen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sri Pada”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Adam’s peak”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Adams peak”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Adamspiggen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Samanalakanda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sivanolipatha Malai”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sri pada”
  • Norwegian: “Adamspiggen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pic d’Adam”
  • Persian: “قله آدام”
  • Polish: “Góra Adama”
  • Polish: “Szczyt Adama”
  • Portuguese: “Pico adão”
  • Portuguese: “Pico de Adão”
  • Portuguese: “Sri Pada”
  • Russian: “Адамов Пик”
  • Russian: “Адамова вершина”
  • Russian: “Пик Адама”
  • Saraiki: “آدم دی چوٹی”
  • Serbian: “Шри Пада”
  • Sindhi: “آدم جي چوٽي”
  • Sinhala: “ශ්‍රී පාද”
  • Sinhala: “ශ්‍රී පාදස්ථානය”
  • Sinhala: “සමනල කන්ද”
  • Slovak: “Adamov vrch”
  • Slovak: “Samanalakanda”
  • Slovak: “Sri Pada”
  • Slovak: “Šrí Páda”
  • Slovenian: “Adamov vrh”
  • Spanish: “Adam’s Peak”
  • Spanish: “Monte de Adan”
  • Spanish: “Monte de Adán”
  • Spanish: “Pico de Adan”
  • Spanish: “Pico de Adán”
  • Swahili: “Sri Pada”
  • Swedish: “Adam’s Peak”
  • Swedish: “Adams peak”
  • Swedish: “Sri Pada”
  • Tamil: “சிவனொளிபாத மலை”
  • Tamil: “சிவனொளிபாதம்”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்ரீ பாத”
  • Tatar: “Адәм пигы”
  • Thai: “Adam’s Peak”
  • Thai: “Sri Pada”
  • Thai: “ศรีบาทา”
  • Thai: “ศรีปาทะ”
  • Turkish: “Âdem Tepesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Пік Адама”
  • Urdu: “آدم کی چوٹی”
  • Venetian: “Sri Pada”
  • Welsh: “Adam’s Peak”
  • Welsh: “Copa Adda”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd Adda”
  • Western Panjabi: “آدم دی چوٹی”

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Localities in the Area

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