Jaffna Teaching Hospital
Jaffna Teaching Hospital is a government hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is the leading hospital in the Northern Province and the only hospital in the province controlled by the central government in Colombo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hospital
- Description: hospital in Sri Lanka
- Address: Hospital Road, Jaffna
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Jaffna Public Library and Gnanams Hotel.
Jaffna Public Library
Library
Photo: Anton 17, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jaffna Public Library is located in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is one of Jaffna's most notable landmarks, and is run by the Jaffna Municipal Council. The library was built in 1933 and is Sri Lanka's second main public Library, only rivalled by Colombo Public Library During the early 1980s, it was one of the biggest libraries in Asia, containing over 97,000 books and manuscripts. Jaffna Public Library is situated 480 metres south of Jaffna Teaching Hospital.
Gnanams Hotel
Hotel
Gnanams Hotel is a hotel in the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. The 32 room hotel is located in the heart of the city on Clock Tower Road, near Jaffna Hospital. Gnanams Hotel is situated 210 metres east of Jaffna Teaching Hospital.
Tilko Jaffna City Hotel
Hotel
Tilko Jaffna City Hotel is a hotel in the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. The four-storey 42 room hotel is located in the heart of the city on K.K.S. Tilko Jaffna City Hotel is situated 230 metres southwest of Jaffna Teaching Hospital.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nallur and Kokkuvil.
Nallur
Town
Nallur is an affluent suburb in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is located 3 km south from Jaffna city centre. Nallur is most famous for Nallur Kandaswamy temple, one of Sri Lanka's most sacred place of pilgrimage for Sri Lankan Hindus.
Kokkuvil
Village
Kokuvil is a suburb in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna. Kokkuvil is situated 3½ km north of Jaffna Teaching Hospital.
Ariyalai
Town
Photo: உமாபதி, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ariyalai is a suburb of the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. The suburb is divided into eight village officer divisions whose combined population was 10,750 at the 2012 census. Ariyalai is situated 4 km east of Jaffna Teaching Hospital.
Jaffna Teaching Hospital
- Category: health care
- Location: Grand Bazaar, Jaffna, Jaffna District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
9.66643° or 9° 39′ 59″ northLongitude
80.01271° or 80° 0′ 46″ eastElevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
6MX2M287+H3OpenStreetMap ID
node 5185617923OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=hospitalOpenStreetMap feature
healthcare=hospitalGeoNames ID
11072721Wikidata ID
Q6121967
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In Other Languages
From Burmese to Tamil—“Jaffna Teaching Hospital” goes by many names.
- Burmese: “ဂျက်ဖနာသင်ကြားရေးဆေးရုံ”
- Sinhala: “යාපනය ශික්ෂණ රෝහල”
- Spanish: “Hospital universitario de Jaffna”
- Tamil: “யாழ்ப்பாணம் போதனா வைத்தியசாலை”
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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 “Jaffna Teaching Hospital”. Photo: Gane Kumaraswamy, CC BY-SA 2.0.