Eastern Province
Batticaloa District
Manmunai North Divisional Secretariat

Batticaloa

Batticaloa is a city in Northeastern Sri Lanka, known for its lagoon, historical landmarks and nearby beaches.
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  • Type: City with 92,300 residents
  • Description: city in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
  • Also known as: “Batticoloa”, “Madakalapuva”, “Madakalapuwra”, “Maddakkalabbu”, and “Maṭṭakkaḷappu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Batticaloa railway station and Batticaloa Lighthouse.

Railway station
Photo: Anton 17, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station in the city of Batticaloa in eastern . Owned by Sri Lanka Railways, the state-owned railway operator, the station is part of the Batticaloa line which links with the capital .

Lighthouse
Photo: Anton 17, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a lighthouse in , situated near the estuary in Palameenmadu. It was built in 1913 and is 28 meters high.

Bridge
Photo: Anton 17, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a road bridge in eastern . It crosses the at Batticaloa. The bridge is part of the A4 Colombo-Batticaloa highway.

Batticaloa

Latitude
7.7356° or 7° 44′ 8″ north
Longitude
81.6942° or 81° 41′ 39″ east
Population
92,300
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
IATA airport code
BTC
United Nations Location Code
LK BTC
Open location code
6MV3PMPV+6M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3668151968
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1250161
Wiki­data ID
Q810963
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Batticaloa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باتيكالوا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Battikaloa”
  • Belarusian: “Батыкалоа”
  • Bengali: “বাট্টিকালোয়া”
  • Bengali: “বাত্তিকালোয়া”
  • Breton: “Batticaloa”
  • Catalan: “Batticaloa”
  • Cebuano: “Batticaloa”
  • Chinese: “巴提卡洛阿”
  • Chinese: “拜蒂克洛”
  • Czech: “Batticaloa”
  • Danish: “Batticaloa”
  • Dutch: “Batticaloa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باتيكالوا”
  • Esperanto: “Batticaloa”
  • Estonian: “Batticaloa”
  • Finnish: “Batticaloa”
  • French: “Batticaloa”
  • Georgian: “ბატიკალოა”
  • German: “Batticaloa”
  • Greek: “Μπατικαλόα”
  • Gujarati: “બેટ્ટીકલોઆ”
  • Hebrew: “בטיקלואה”
  • Hindi: “बट्टिकलोआ”
  • Hindi: “बट्टिकलोवा”
  • Hindi: “बतीकलोवा”
  • Hungarian: “Batticaloa”
  • Indonesian: “Batticaloa”
  • Irish: “Batticaloa”
  • Italian: “Batticaloa”
  • Japanese: “バッティカロア”
  • Kannada: “ಬಟ್ಟಿಕಲೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಯಾಟಿಕೊಲೊ”
  • Korean: “바키칼로아”
  • Korean: “바티칼로아”
  • Latvian: “Batikaloa”
  • Latvian: “Batikaola”
  • Lithuanian: “Batikaloa”
  • Malay: “Batticaloa”
  • Malayalam: “ബട്ടികാലോവ”
  • Malayalam: “മട്ടക്കളപ്പ്”
  • Marathi: “बॅटीकोलॉआ”
  • Mingrelian: “ბატიკალოა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Batticaloa”
  • Norwegian: “Batticaloa”
  • Persian: “باتیکالوا”
  • Polish: “Madakalapuwa”
  • Portuguese: “Batecalou”
  • Portuguese: “Baticaloa”
  • Portuguese: “Batticaloa”
  • Russian: “Баттикалоа”
  • Sinhala: “මඩකලපුව නගරය”
  • Sinhala: “මඩකලපුව”
  • Spanish: “Batticaloa”
  • Swedish: “Batticaloa”
  • Tamil: “பட்டிக்காலோஆ”
  • Tamil: “மட்டக்களப்பு”
  • Telugu: “బట్టికలోవా”
  • Thai: “คาร์บินซิ”
  • Thai: “บัตติกาโลอา”
  • Thai: “บัตติคาโลอา”
  • Turkish: “Batticaloa”
  • Ukrainian: “Баттікалоа”
  • Urdu: “باٹیکالوا”
  • Vietnamese: “Batticaloa”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Batticaloa”. Photo: AntanO, CC BY-SA 3.0.