Badulla

Badulla is the capital city of Province, in . It is not a beautiful city, but it is set in a beautiful landscape, and it has a functional, working-class authenticity often missed in more tourist-oriented Sri Lanka.
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Photo: A.Savin, FAL.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Uva Wellassa University and Dunhinda Falls.

University
is a national university located in the city of Badulla. The university was established in 2005 and is one of Sri Lanka's national universities, serving the .

Waterfall
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a waterfall located about 5 kilometres from Badulla in the lower central hills of . The waterfall, which is 64 metres high, is created by the Badulu Oya, a river that flows through Badulla.

College
, Badulla is a public school in Uva province, Sri Lanka which was founded in 1867. A national school, it controlled by the central government, it provides primary and secondary education.

Badulla

Latitude
6.99° or 6° 59′ 24″ north
Longitude
81.057° or 81° 3′ 25″ east
Population
110,000
Elevation
683 metres (2,241 feet)
Open location code
6MR3X3R4+2R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1945604886
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1250615
Wiki­data ID
Q390096
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Badulla” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ባዱላ”
  • Arabic: “بادولا”
  • Armenian: “Բադուլլա”
  • Asturian: “Badulla”
  • Azerbaijani: “Badulla”
  • Bengali: “বাদুল্লা”
  • Catalan: “Badulla”
  • Cebuano: “Badulla (kapital sa lalawigan sa Sri Lanka)”
  • Cebuano: “Badulla”
  • Chinese: “巴杜勒”
  • Danish: “Badulla”
  • Dutch: “Badulla”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بادولا”
  • Esperanto: “Badulla”
  • Estonian: “Badulla”
  • Finnish: “Badulla”
  • French: “Badulla”
  • Georgian: “ბადულა”
  • German: “Badulla”
  • Greek: “Μπαντούλλα”
  • Gujarati: “બડુલા”
  • Hausa: “Badulla”
  • Hebrew: “בדולה”
  • Hindi: “बदुल्ला”
  • Hindi: “बैड्युला”
  • Hungarian: “Badulla”
  • Indonesian: “Badulla”
  • Irish: “Badulla”
  • Italian: “Badulla”
  • Japanese: “バドゥッラ”
  • Japanese: “バドゥラ”
  • Javanese: “Badulla”
  • Kannada: “ಬದುಲ್ಲ”
  • Kannada: “ಬದುಲ್ಲಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Бадула”
  • Kirghiz: “Бадула”
  • Korean: “바둘라”
  • Latvian: “Badula”
  • Lithuanian: “Badula”
  • Malay: “Badulla”
  • Marathi: “बडुला”
  • Mingrelian: “ბადულა”
  • Northern Frisian: “Badulla”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Badulla”
  • Norwegian: “Badulla”
  • Oromo: “Badulla”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਦੁੱਲਾ”
  • Persian: “بادولا”
  • Polish: “Badulla”
  • Portuguese: “Badulla”
  • Pushto: “بادولا”
  • Russian: “Бадулла”
  • Russian: “Бадуллы”
  • Sinhala: “බදුල්ල”
  • Slovenian: “Badulla”
  • Somali: “Badulla”
  • Spanish: “Badulla”
  • Swahili: “Badulla”
  • Swedish: “Badulla”
  • Tajik: “Бадула”
  • Tamil: “பதுளை”
  • Tatar: “Бадула”
  • Telugu: “బదుల్లా”
  • Thai: “บาดุลลา”
  • Turkish: “Badulla”
  • Ukrainian: “Бадулла”
  • Urdu: “بادولا”
  • Uzbek: “Badulla”
  • Veps: “Badull”
  • Vietnamese: “Badulla”

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