Hikkaduwa
Hikkaduwa is a beach town on the southwest coast of Sri Lanka, between the villages Thotagamuwa and Thiranagama. 20 km south you find the city of Galle. A small part of the beach is a Marine National Park, Hikkaduwa National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Dinusha Chathuranga, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Seenigama and Nalagasdeniya.
Seenigama
Village
Seenigama or Seenigama Devol is a village on the south coast of Sri Lanka. It is located in the Southern Province, about 22 kilometres north-west of Galle. Seenigama is known for a temple dedicated to Devol, a deity in Sinhala Buddhist mythology.
Nalagasdeniya
Village
Nalagasdeniya is a small village in Hikkaduwa Divisional Secretary's Area in Galle District of Southern Province of Sri Lanka.
Hikkaduwa
- Type: Town with 101,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Hikkaduwa Divisional Secretariat, Galle District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
6.1408° or 6° 8′ 27″ northLongitude
80.1028° or 80° 6′ 10″ eastPopulation
101,000Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
6MR244R3+84OpenStreetMap ID
node 9649624598OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1244178Wikidata ID
Q1618065
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Urdu—“Hikkaduwa” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “হিক্কাডুয়া”
- Cebuano: “Hikkaduwa”
- Chinese: “希卡杜瓦”
- Czech: “Hikkaduwa”
- Dutch: “Hikkaduwa”
- Finnish: “Hikkaduwa”
- French: “Hikkaduwa”
- German: “Hikkaduwa”
- Hebrew: “היקדואה”
- Irish: “Hikkaduwa”
- Italian: “Hikkaduwa”
- Japanese: “ヒッカドゥワ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hikkaduwa”
- Norwegian: “Hikkaduwa”
- Persian: “هیکادووا”
- Polish: “Hikkaduwa”
- Russian: “Хиккадува”
- Sinhala: “හික්කඩුව”
- Spanish: “Hikkaduwa”
- Swedish: “Hikkaduwa”
- Tamil: “இக்கடுவை”
- Tamil: “கிக்கடுவை”
- Urdu: “ہکادووا”
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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 “Hikkaduwa”. Photo: Dinusha Chathuranga, CC BY-SA 4.0.