Karaitivu
Karaitivu is a coastal village situated in the Eastern Coast of Sri Lanka about 30 miles south of Batticaloa and is next to Kalmunai town. This is one of the oldest surviving village settlements in the Ampara District.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kalmunai and Sammanthurai.
Kalmunai
Town
Photo: Sajeevclub, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kalmunai is a city located in the Ampara District of Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. Kalmunai is situated 4 km north of Karaitivu.
Sammanthurai
Photo: L Manju, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sammanthurai is a town of over 60,000 people in the Ampara District of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. It's renowned for its rice paddies and its inner harbour from ancient times - although it is now more than 4 km from the coast of the Bay of Bengal.
Karaitivu
- Type: Town with 15,000 residents
- Description: town in Ampara District, Sri Lanka
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Karaitheevu 07, Karaitivu Divisional Secretariat, Ampara District, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
7.37695° or 7° 22′ 37″ northLongitude
81.83879° or 81° 50′ 20″ eastPopulation
15,000Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open location code
6MV39RGQ+QGOpenStreetMap ID
node 3316122477OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
8986781Wikidata ID
Q6368027
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Tamil—“Karaitivu” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Karaitivu”
- Irish: “Karaitivu”
- Japanese: “カライティヴ (アンパーラ県)”
- Persian: “کارائیتیوو (امپرا)”
- Persian: “کارائیتیوو”
- Sinhala: “කාරතීවු”
- Tamil: “காரைதீவு (அம்பாறை)”
- Tamil: “காரைதீவு”
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