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.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aluthgama.

Town
is a coastal town in in the Western Province of . It is approximately 63.5 kilometres south of and 68 kilometres north of .

Bentota

Latitude
6.4215° or 6° 25′ 18″ north
Longitude
79.9979° or 79° 59′ 52″ east
Population
37,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
BJT
Open location code
6JRXCXCX+J4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1606175319
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1249978
Wiki­data ID
Q4890663
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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.