Dambulla
Dambulla is a city situated in the north of Matale District, in Sri Lanka's Central Province. It is the second largest populated and urbanised centre after Matale in the Matale District.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 68,800 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Dambul”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dambulla cave temple.
Dambulla cave temple
Buddhist temple
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Dambulla cave temple, also known as the Golden Temple of Dambulla, is a World Heritage Site in Sri Lanka, situated in the central part of the country. This site is situated 148 kilometres east of Colombo, 72 kilometres north of Kandy and 43 kilometres north of Matale.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bambaragaleyaya and Pohoranwewayaya.
Bambaragaleyaya
Village
Bambaragaleyaya is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province.
Pohoranwewayaya
Village
Pohoranwewayaya is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province. Pohoranwewayaya is situated 3½ km southwest of Dambulla.
Yapagama
Village
Yapagama is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province. Yapagama is situated 3½ km south of Dambulla.
Dambulla
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Dambulla, Matale District, Central Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
7.8742° or 7° 52′ 27″ northLongitude
80.6511° or 80° 39′ 4″ eastPopulation
68,800Elevation
168 metres (551 feet)IATA airport code
DBUOpen location code
6MV2VMF2+MCOpenStreetMap ID
node 258031093OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Dambulla” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Dam̆bulla”
- Arabic: “دامبولا”
- Assamese: “ডাম্বুলা”
- Belarusian: “Дамбула”
- Bengali: “ডাম্বুলা”
- Catalan: “Dambulla”
- Cebuano: “Dam̆bulla”
- Chinese: “丹布勒”
- Croatian: “Dambulla”
- Czech: “Dambulla”
- Danish: “Dambulla”
- Dutch: “Dambulla”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دامبولا”
- Finnish: “Dambulla”
- French: “Dambulla”
- German: “Dambulla”
- Greek: “Ντάμπουλλα”
- Gujarati: “ડંબુલા”
- Hebrew: “דמבולה”
- Hindi: “डंबुला”
- Hindi: “दांबुला”
- Hungarian: “Dambulla”
- Indonesian: “Dambulla”
- Irish: “Dambulla”
- Italian: “Dambulla”
- Japanese: “ダンブーラ”
- Japanese: “ダンブッラ”
- Kannada: “ಡಂಬುಲ್ಲಾ”
- Kannada: “ದಂಬುಲ್ಲಾ”
- Korean: “담불라”
- Latvian: “Dambula”
- Lithuanian: “Dambula”
- Malay: “Dambulla”
- Malayalam: “Dambulla”
- Malayalam: “ദംബുള്ള”
- Malayalam: “ദാംബുള്ള”
- Marathi: “डंबुला”
- Marathi: “डांबुला”
- Mingrelian: “დამბულა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dambulla”
- Persian: “دامبولا”
- Polish: “Dambula”
- Polish: “Dambulla”
- Russian: “Дамбулла”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dambulla”
- Sinhala: “දඹුල්ල”
- Slovenian: “Dambulla”
- Spanish: “Dambulla”
- Swedish: “Dambulla”
- Swedish: “Raja Maha Vihara”
- Tamil: “தம்புள்ள”
- Tamil: “தம்புள்ளை”
- Telugu: “దంబుల్లా”
- Thai: “ดัมบุลลา”
- Turkish: “Dambulla”
- Ukrainian: “Дамбулла”
- Urdu: “دامبولا”
- Vietnamese: “Dam̆bulla”
- “Dam̆bulla”
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