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Sri Lanka
North Central Province

Anuradhapura

Anuradhapura is a major city located in the north central plain of . It is the capital city of and the capital of .
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Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
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  • Type: City with 63,200 residents
  • Description: city in North Central Province, Sri Lanka
  • Also known as: “Aneuradhapura”, “Anuradhapura Town”, and “阿努拉德普勒王國”
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi and Jetavanaramaya.

Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The is a sacred Bo tree located in the Mahamewuna Garden, within the historic UNESCO World Heritage City of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.

Buddhist temple
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The Jetavanarama stupa or is a , or Buddhist reliquary monument, located in the ruins of Jetavana monastery in the UNESCO world heritage city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.

Buddhist temple
Photo: KennyOMG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Ruwanweli Maha Seya, also known as the Maha Thupa, is a in Anuradhapura, . Two quarts or one Dona of the Buddha's relics are enshrined in the stupa, making it the largest collection of his relics anywhere.

Anuradhapura

Latitude
8.335° or 8° 20′ 6″ north
Longitude
80.4106° or 80° 24′ 38″ east
Population
63,200
Elevation
100 metres (328 feet)
IATA airport code
ACJ
United Nations Location Code
LK ADP
Open location code
6MW28CM6+X6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 566574942
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1251081
Wiki­data ID
Q5724
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Anuradhapura” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أنرادبورة”
  • Arabic: “أنورادابورا”
  • Armenian: “Անուրադհապուրա”
  • Assamese: “অনুৰাধাপুৰা”
  • Asturian: “Anuradhapura”
  • Balinese: “Anuradhapura”
  • Basque: “Anuradhapura”
  • Belarusian: “Анурадхапура”
  • Bengali: “অনুরাধাপুর”
  • Bengali: “অনুরাধাপুরা”
  • Bhojpuri: “अनुराधापूरा”
  • Bulgarian: “Анурадхапура”
  • Burmese: “အနုရာဒါပူရမြို့”
  • Burmese: “အနုရာဓပူရမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Anuradhapura”
  • Cebuano: “Anuradhapura”
  • Chinese: “阿努拉德普勒”
  • Chinese: “阿㝹羅陀城”
  • Croatian: “Anuradhapura”
  • Czech: “Anuradhapura”
  • Czech: “Anuradhápura”
  • Danish: “Anuradhapura”
  • Dutch: “Anuradhapura”
  • Dutch: “Heilige stad van Anuradhapura”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “انورادابورا”
  • Esperanto: “Anuradhapura”
  • Estonian: “Anuradhapura”
  • Finnish: “Anuradhapura”
  • French: “Anuradhapura”
  • French: “Anurâdhapura”
  • Georgian: “ანურადჰაპურა”
  • German: “Anuradhapura”
  • Greek: “Ανουρανταπούρα”
  • Gujarati: “અનુરાધાપુરા”
  • Hebrew: “אנוראדאפורה”
  • Hindi: “अनुराधापुर”
  • Hindi: “अनुराधापुरा”
  • Hungarian: “Anuradhapura”
  • Indonesian: “Anuradhapura”
  • Italian: “Anurādhapura”
  • Japanese: “アヌラーダプラ”
  • Japanese: “アヌラダープラ”
  • Kannada: “ಅನು಼ರಾದಪುರಂ”
  • Kannada: “ಅನುರಾಧಪುರ”
  • Kazakh: “Анурадхапура”
  • Korean: “아누라다푸라”
  • Latvian: “Anuradhapura”
  • Latvian: “Anurādhapura”
  • Lithuanian: “Anuradhapura”
  • Macedonian: “Анурадапура”
  • Maithili: “अनुराधापुरा”
  • Malay: “Anuradhapura”
  • Malayalam: “അനുരാധപുരം (നഗരം)”
  • Malayalam: “അനുരാധപുരം”
  • Maltese: “Anuradhapura”
  • Marathi: “अनुराधापुरा”
  • Mingrelian: “ანურადჰაპურა”
  • Nepali: “अनुराधापुरा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Anuradhapura”
  • Norwegian: “Anuradhapura”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Anuradhapura”
  • Oriya: “ଅନୁରାଧାପୁର”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਨੁਰਾਧਾਪੁਰ”
  • Persian: “انورادهاپورا”
  • Polish: “Anuradhapura”
  • Portuguese: “Anuradapura”
  • Portuguese: “Anuradhapura”
  • Romanian: “Anuradhapura”
  • Russian: “Анурадхапура”
  • Scots: “Anuradhapura”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Anuradhapura”
  • Silesian: “Anuradhapura”
  • Sinhala: “අනුරාධපුර පෞරාණික නගරය”
  • Sinhala: “අනුරාධපුර”
  • Slovak: “Anurádhapuraja”
  • Slovenian: “Anuradhapura”
  • Spanish: “Anuradhapura”
  • Swedish: “Anuradhapura (provinshuvudstad i Sri Lanka)”
  • Swedish: “Anuradhapura”
  • Tamil: “அனுராதபுரம்”
  • Tamil: “அனுராதபுரா”
  • Tatar: “Анурадхапура каласы”
  • Telugu: “అనురాధాపుర”
  • Thai: “อนุราธปุระ”
  • Turkish: “Anuphapura”
  • Turkish: “Anuradhapura”
  • Ukrainian: “Анурадхапура”
  • Urdu: “انرادھپورہ”
  • Urdu: “انُرادھپورہ”
  • Urdu: “انو رادھ پور”
  • Urdu: “انورادھاپورہ”
  • Uzbek: “Anuradhapura”
  • Veps: “Anuradhapur”
  • Vietnamese: “Anuradhapura”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Anuradhapura”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿努拉德普勒”
  • “अनुराधापूरा”

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