Chilaw

Chilaw is a town in the of . The western side of Chilaw is an area of sandy beaches.
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  • Town with 26,700 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 8 metres (26 feet)
  • Description: large town in Puttalam district, Sri Lanka
  • Also known as
    “Chilan”
    “Chilaw Town”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Munneswaram temple and St. Mary’s College.
Leon Meerson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an important regional complex in .
St. Mary's College, Chilaw is one of the oldest English educational institutes of past Ceylon.

Chilaw

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Latitude
7.5763° or 7° 34′ 35″ north
Longitude
79.7954° or 79° 47′ 43″ east
Open location code
6JVXHQGW+G4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1400410588
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1249145
Wiki­data ID
Q2495639

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Chilaw” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تْشيلو”
  • Bengali: “চিলাউ”
  • Bengali: “চিলাও”
  • Catalan: “Chilaw”
  • Cebuano: “Chilaw”
  • Chinese: “奇洛”
  • Danish: “Chilaw”
  • Dutch: “Chilaw”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشيلو”
  • Finnish: “Chilaw”
  • French: “Chilaw”
  • German: “Chilaw”
  • Greek: “Τσιλόου”
  • Gujarati: “ચિલો”
  • Hindi: “चिलाव”
  • Indonesian: “Chilaw”
  • Irish: “Chilaw”
  • Italian: “Chillaw”
  • Japanese: “チラウ”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿಲವ್”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿಲಾವ್”
  • Korean: “칠라오”
  • Latvian: “Čilava”
  • Lithuanian: “Čilavas”
  • Malay: “Chilaw”
  • Marathi: “चिलाव”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chilaw”
  • Persian: “چیلاو”
  • Polish: “Chilaw”
  • Russian: “Чилав”
  • Sinhala: “හලාවත”
  • Spanish: “Chilaw”
  • Swedish: “Chilaw”
  • Tamil: “சிலாபம்”
  • Telugu: “చిలావ్”
  • Thai: “ชิลอว์”
  • Turkish: “Chilaw”
  • Ukrainian: “Чілав”
  • Urdu: “چیلاو”
  • Vietnamese: “Chilaw”

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