Jaffna
Jaffna District is the northernmost region of Sri Lanka, and one of the oldest inhabited places on the island. It is populated mainly by Tamil speaking people.
- City with about 88,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code JAF
- Description: capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka
- Also known as“Jaffna Town”“Jaffna, Sri Lanka”“Yalpanam”“Yalpanapattinam”“Yalppanam”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jaffna Public Library and Jaffna Fort.
Jaffna Public Library
Library
Jaffna Public Library is located in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
Jaffna Teaching Hospital
Hospital
Jaffna Teaching Hospital is a government hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nallur and Kokkuvil.
Kokkuvil
Village
Kokuvil is a suburb in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna.
Jaffna
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Latitude
9.6651° or 9° 39′ 54″ north
Longitude
80.0093° or 80° 0′ 34″ east
UN/LOCODE
LK JAF
Open location code
6MX2M285+2P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Armenian—“Jaffna” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ጃፍና”
- Arabic: “جافنا”
- Arabic: “جفنا (سريلانكا)”
- Arabic: “جفنا”
- Asturian: “Jaffna”
- Azerbaijani: “Jaffna”
- Belarusian: “Джафна”
- Bengali: “জাফনা”
- Breton: “Jaffna”
- Catalan: “Jaffna”
- Chinese: “賈夫納”
- Chinese: “贾夫纳”
- Czech: “Jaffna”
- Czech: “Jápané”
- Danish: “Jaffna”
- Dutch: “Jaffna”
- Dutch: “Jaffnapatnam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جافنا”
- Esperanto: “Ĝafna”
- Estonian: “Jaffna”
- Finnish: “Jaffna”
- French: “Jaffna”
- Georgian: “ჯაფნა”
- German: “Jaffna”
- Greek: “Τζάφνα”
- Gujarati: “જાફના”
- Hausa: “Jaffna”
- Hebrew: “ג’אפנה”
- Hebrew: “ג’פנה”
- Hindi: “जाफना”
- Hungarian: “Jaffna”
- Indonesian: “Jaffna”
- Irish: “Jaffna”
- Italian: “Jaffna”
- Japanese: “ジャフナ”
- Javanese: “Jaffna”
- Kannada: “ಜಾಫ್ನಾ”
- Kannada: “ಯಾೞ್ಪ್ಪಾಣಂ”
- Kazakh: “Яффна”
- Kirghiz: “Яффна”
- Korean: “자프나”
- Latvian: “Džafna”
- Lithuanian: “Džafna”
- Malay: “Jaffna”
- Malayalam: “ജാഫ്ന”
- Marathi: “जाफना”
- Mazanderani: “جفنا”
- Mingrelian: “ჯაფნა”
- Nepali: “जाफना”
- Northern Frisian: “Jaffna”
- Northern Frisian: “Yalpanam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jaffna”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jaffna”
- Norwegian: “Jaffna”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Jaffna”
- Oromo: “Jaffna”
- Panjabi: “ਜਾਫਨਾ”
- Persian: “جافنا”
- Polish: “Dżafna”
- Polish: “Jaffna”
- Portuguese: “Jafanapatão”
- Portuguese: “Jaffna”
- Portuguese: “Jaffnapatam”
- Portuguese: “Yazhpanam”
- Pushto: “جفنا”
- Russian: “Джафна”
- Santali: “ᱡᱟᱯᱷᱱᱟ”
- Scots: “Jaffna”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Džafna”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jaffna”
- Silesian: “Dżafna”
- Sindhi: “جافنا”
- Sinhala: “යාපනය”
- Sinhala: “යාපනේ”
- Somali: “Jaffna”
- Spanish: “Jaffna”
- Swahili: “Jaffna”
- Swedish: “Jaffna”
- Tajik: “Яффна”
- Tamil: “யாழ்ப்பாண நகரம்”
- Tamil: “யாழ்ப்பாணம்”
- Tatar: “Яффна”
- Telugu: “జాఫ్నా”
- Thai: “จาฟฟ์นา”
- Thai: “แจฟฟ์นา”
- Turkish: “Jaffna”
- Ukrainian: “Джафна”
- Urdu: “جافنا”
- Urdu: “جففنا”
- Uzbek: “Jaffna”
- Uzbek: “Jafna”
- Uzbek: “Vapanaya”
- Uzbek: “Yapanaya”
- Veps: “Džafn”
- Vietnamese: “Jaffna”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jaffna”
- Western Armenian: “Ժաֆնա”
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