Gampaha
Gampaha is an urban city in Gampaha District, Western Province, Sri Lanka. It is situated to the north-east of the capital Colombo. It is the sixth largest urban area in Western Province, after Colombo, Negombo, Kalutara, Panadura and Avissawella.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pradeep Malli, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Henarathgoda Botanical Garden and Gampaha railway station.
Henarathgoda Botanical Garden
Garden
Photo: L Manju, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Henarathgoda Botanical Garden, also known as Gampaha Botanical Garden, is one of the six botanical gardens in Sri Lanka. The botanical garden is situated on the Gampaha-Minuwangoda main road, approximately 450 m away from Gampaha railway station.
Gampaha railway station
Railway station
Gampaha railway station is a railway station in the western city of Gampaha in Sri Lanka. The station is served by Sri Lanka Railways, which is the state-run railway operator.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yakkala.
Yakkala
Town
Yakkala is a village located between Nittambuwa and Kadawatha on the A1 Highway. It forms part of Gampaha Municipal Council and located in the Gampaha District, Western Province.
Gampaha
- Type: City with 20,000 residents
- Description: city in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka
- Category: locality
- Location: Gampaha District, Western Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
7.0926° or 7° 5′ 33″ northLongitude
79.9951° or 79° 59′ 43″ eastPopulation
20,000Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)United Nations Location Code
LK GAMOpen location code
6JVX3XVW+23OpenStreetMap ID
node 3289447451OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Gampaha” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جامباها”
- Azerbaijani: “Qampaha”
- Bengali: “গেমপাহা”
- Cebuano: “Gampaha”
- Chinese: “加姆珀哈”
- Danish: “Gampaha”
- Dutch: “Gampaha”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جامباها”
- Finnish: “Gampaha”
- French: “Gampaha”
- Georgian: “გამპაჰა”
- German: “Gampaha”
- Greek: “Γκαμπάχα”
- Gujarati: “ગમ્પાહા”
- Hebrew: “גמפאהה”
- Hindi: “गम्पाहा”
- Indonesian: “Gampaha”
- Italian: “Gampaha”
- Japanese: “ガンパハ”
- Kannada: “ಕೊಲಂಬಿಯಾ”
- Kannada: “ಗಂಪಹ”
- Korean: “감파하”
- Latvian: “Gampaha”
- Lithuanian: “Gampacha”
- Malay: “Gampaha”
- Marathi: “गॅम्पाहा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gampaha”
- Persian: “گامپاها”
- Polish: “Gampaha”
- Russian: “Гампаха”
- Sinhala: “ගම්පහ”
- Spanish: “Gampaha”
- Swedish: “Gampaha”
- Tamil: “கம்பகா”
- Telugu: “గంపాహ”
- Thai: “คัมปาฮา”
- Turkish: “Gampaha”
- Ukrainian: “Ґампага”
- Ukrainian: “Гампаха”
- Urdu: “گامپاہا”
- Urdu: “گمپاہ”
- Vietnamese: “Gampaha”
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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 Wikipedia page “Gampaha”. Photo: Pradeep Malli, CC BY-SA 3.0.