Galle
Galle is in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. Galle's old town with its fortifications have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
- City with about 93,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 20 metres (80 feet)
- …is also known as “Point de Galle”
- Description: city in Southern Province, Sri Lanka
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Museum of Galle and St. Mary’s Cathedral.
National Museum of Galle
The National Museum of Galle is one of the national museums of Sri Lanka.
St. Mary’s Cathedral
The Cathedral of St. Mary, Queen of the Holy Rosary…
Galle Fort Hotel
The Galle Fort Hotel in Sri Lanka is a 12-room boutique hotel, situated inside Galle Fort, Galle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Unawatuna and Karapitiya.
Karapitiya
Suburb
Karapitiya is a suburb of Galle in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka.
Galle
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Latitude
6.0328° or 6° 1′ 58″ north
Longitude
80.215° or 80° 12′ 54″ east
UN/LOCODE
LK GAL
Open location code
6MR226M7+4X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Satellite Map
Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Galle” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Galle”
- Amharic: “ጋሌ”
- Arabic: “غالي”
- Armenian: “Գալլե (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Գալլե”
- Asturian: “Galle”
- Azerbaijani: “Galle”
- Basque: “Galle”
- Belarusian: “Гале (Шры-Ланка)”
- Belarusian: “Гале”
- Bengali: “গালে”
- Breton: “Galle”
- Bulgarian: “Гале”
- Catalan: “Galle”
- Cebuano: “Galle (kapital sa lalawigan sa Sri Lanka)”
- Cebuano: “Galle”
- Chinese: “加勒”
- Croatian: “Galle”
- Czech: “Galle”
- Danish: “Galle”
- Dutch: “Galle”
- Egyptian Arabic: “گالی”
- Esperanto: “Galle”
- Estonian: “Galle”
- Finnish: “Galle”
- French: “Galle”
- Georgian: “გალე”
- German: “Galle”
- Greek: “Γκάλε”
- Gujarati: “ગલે”
- Gujarati: “ગાલ્લે, શ્રીલંકા”
- Hausa: “Galle”
- Hebrew: “גאלה”
- Hindi: “गाले”
- Hindi: “गाल्ल”
- Hungarian: “Galle, Gálla”
- Hungarian: “Gálle”
- Indonesian: “Galle”
- Irish: “Galle”
- Italian: “Galle”
- Japanese: “ゴール”
- Javanese: “Galle”
- Kannada: “ಗಾಲೆ”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ಯಾಲೆ”
- Kazakh: “Галле”
- Kirghiz: “Галле”
- Korean: “갈”
- Latvian: “Gale”
- Lithuanian: “Galė”
- Maithili: “गाल”
- Malay: “Galle”
- Malayalam: “ഗാലെ”
- Marathi: “गाली”
- Marathi: “गाल्ले”
- Mingrelian: “გალე (შრი-ლანკა)”
- Mingrelian: “გალე”
- Nepali: “गाल”
- Northern Frisian: “Gaalle”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Galle”
- Norwegian: “Galle”
- Oromo: “Galle”
- Panjabi: “ਗਾਲੇ”
- Persian: “گالی”
- Polish: “Galla”
- Polish: “Galle”
- Portuguese: “Gale”
- Portuguese: “Galle”
- Pushto: “ګالې”
- Russian: “Галле”
- Santali: “ᱜᱟᱞᱮ (ᱥᱨᱤᱞᱚᱝᱠᱟ)”
- Santali: “ᱜᱟᱞᱮ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Galle”
- Silesian: “Galle”
- Sinhala: “ගාල්ල”
- Slovak: “Gáli”
- Slovak: “Gálla”
- Slovenian: “Galle”
- Somali: “Galle”
- Spanish: “Galle”
- Spanish: “Gimhathiththa”
- Spanish: “Qali”
- Swahili: “Galle”
- Swedish: “Galle (provinshuvudstad i Sri Lanka)”
- Swedish: “Galle”
- Tajik: “Галле”
- Tamil: “காலி”
- Tatar: “Галле”
- Telugu: “గల్లే”
- Thai: “Galle”
- Thai: “กอลล์”
- Thai: “เมืองเก่าและป้อมปราการแห่งกอลล์”
- Turkish: “Galle”
- Ukrainian: “Галле”
- Ukrainian: “Ґалле”
- Urdu: “گال”
- Urdu: “گالے”
- Uzbek: “Galle”
- Veps: “Galle”
- Vietnamese: “Galle”
- Waray (Philippines): “Galle”
- Welsh: “Galle”
Places with the Same Name
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Kaluwella and Talbot Town.
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Southern Province: Highlights
Learn more about Sinharaja Forest Reserve and Hambantota.