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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 120,000 residents
- Description: city in Southern Province, Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Point de Galle”
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Museum of Galle and St. Mary’s Cathedral.
National Museum of Galle
Museum
Photo: Dan arndt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Museum of Galle is one of the national museums of Sri Lanka. It is located in the oldest remaining Dutch building in the Galle fort, Galle, a single storey colonnaded Dutch building built in 1656 as the commissariat store for the Dutch garrison at the fort.
St. Mary’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral of St. Mary, Queen of the Holy Rosary, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Galle. It is a landmark in the city of Galle, Sri Lanka.
Galle Fort Hotel
Hotel
Photo: Dan arndt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Galle Fort Hotel in Sri Lanka is a 12-room boutique hotel, situated inside Galle Fort, Galle. The building was originally constructed in the 17th century, during the Dutch colonial period, as a private dwelling.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Unawatuna and Karapitiya.
Unawatuna
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Unawatuna is a beach resort town in southern Sri Lanka 5 km south of Galle. It can be seen as its suburb, a bustling little community of guest houses, cafes, markets, crafts and bars. The main beach is swimmable year round.
Karapitiya
Suburb
Karapitiya is a suburb of Galle in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. It is located within the limits of Galle Four Gravets.
Galle
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Southern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
6.0328° or 6° 1′ 58″ northLongitude
80.215° or 80° 12′ 54″ eastPopulation
120,000Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)United Nations Location Code
LK GALOpen location code
6MR226M7+4XOpenStreetMap ID
node 3639546887OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Galle” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Galle”
- Arabic: “غالي”
- Armenian: “Գալլե (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Գալլե”
- Asturian: “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”
- Hebrew: “גאלה”
- Hindi: “गाले”
- Hindi: “गाल्ल”
- Hungarian: “Galle, Gálla”
- Hungarian: “Gálle”
- Indonesian: “Galle”
- Irish: “Galle”
- Italian: “Galle”
- Japanese: “ゴール”
- Kannada: “ಗಾಲೆ”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ಯಾಲೆ”
- Korean: “갈”
- Latvian: “Gale”
- Lithuanian: “Galė”
- Maithili: “गाल”
- Malay: “Galle”
- Malayalam: “ഗാലെ”
- Marathi: “गाली”
- Marathi: “गाल्ले”
- Marathi: “गॅले”
- Marathi: “गॉल”
- Mingrelian: “გალე (შრი-ლანკა)”
- Mingrelian: “გალე”
- Nepali: “गाल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Galle”
- Norwegian: “Galle”
- Persian: “گالی”
- Polish: “Galla”
- Polish: “Galle”
- Portuguese: “Gale”
- Portuguese: “Galle”
- Russian: “Галле”
- Santali: “ᱜᱟᱞᱮ (ᱥᱨᱤᱞᱚᱝᱠᱟ)”
- Santali: “ᱜᱟᱞᱮ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Galle”
- Silesian: “Galle”
- Sinhala: “ගාල්ල”
- Slovak: “Gáli”
- Slovak: “Gálla”
- Slovenian: “Galle”
- Spanish: “Galle”
- Spanish: “Gimhathiththa”
- Spanish: “Qali”
- Swedish: “Galle (provinshuvudstad i Sri Lanka)”
- Swedish: “Galle”
- Tamil: “காலி”
- Tatar: “Галле”
- Telugu: “గల్లే”
- Thai: “Galle”
- Thai: “กอลล์”
- Thai: “เมืองเก่าและป้อมปราการแห่งกอลล์”
- Turkish: “Galle”
- Ukrainian: “Галле”
- Ukrainian: “Ґалле”
- Urdu: “گال”
- Urdu: “گالے”
- Veps: “Galle”
- Vietnamese: “Galle”
- Waray (Philippines): “Galle”
- Welsh: “Galle”
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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 “Galle”. Photo: Saqib, CC BY-SA 3.0.