Bentota
Bentota is a coastal town of 37,000 people in Southern Sri Lanka. Bentota is a tourist town, with a local airport and a handful of world-class hotels. It is a destination for watersports and is famous for its toddy production, an alcoholic beverage made out of coconut nectar.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Saman Villas Bentota, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aluthgama.
Aluthgama
Town
Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aluthgama is a coastal town in Kalutara District in the Western Province of Sri Lanka. It is approximately 63.5 kilometres south of Colombo and 68 kilometres north of Galle.
Bentota
- Type: Town with 37,000 residents
- Description: town in Southern Province, Sri Lanka
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Benthota Divisional Secretariat, Galle District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
6.4215° or 6° 25′ 18″ northLongitude
79.9979° or 79° 59′ 52″ eastPopulation
37,000Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)IATA airport code
BJTOpen location code
6JRXCXCX+J4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1606175319OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Bentota” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بينتوتا”
- Bengali: “চেস্কে বুদেজোভিসে”
- Bengali: “বেন্টোটা”
- Cebuano: “Bentota”
- Chinese: “本托特”
- Danish: “Bentota”
- Dutch: “Bentota”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بينتوتا”
- Esperanto: “Bentota”
- Finnish: “Bentota”
- French: “Bentota”
- German: “Bentota”
- Greek: “Μπεντότα”
- Gujarati: “બેન્ટોટા”
- Hindi: “बेनटोटा”
- Indonesian: “Bentota”
- Irish: “Bentota”
- Italian: “Bentota”
- Japanese: “ベントタ”
- Kannada: “ಬೆಂಟೋಟಾ”
- Kannada: “ಬೆಂತೊಟ”
- Kannada: “ಬೆೆಂಟಾಟಾ”
- Korean: “벤토타”
- Latvian: “Bentota”
- Lithuanian: “Bentota”
- Malay: “Bentota”
- Malayalam: “ബെന്റോട്ട”
- Marathi: “बंटोटा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bentota”
- Persian: “بنتوتا”
- Polish: “Bentota”
- Portuguese: “Bentota”
- Russian: “Бентота”
- Sinhala: “Bentota”
- Sinhala: “බෙන්තොට”
- Slovenian: “Bentota”
- Spanish: “Bentota”
- Swedish: “Bentota”
- Tamil: “பெந்தோட்டை”
- Telugu: “బెంటోట”
- Thai: “เบนโตตา”
- Turkish: “Bentota”
- Ukrainian: “Бентота”
- Urdu: “بینتوتا”
- Vietnamese: “Bentota”
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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 “Bentota”. Photo: Saman Villas Bentota, CC BY-SA 4.0.