Kalutara
Kalutara is in Western Province. The area is well known for producing mangosteens, a fruit introduced from Malaysia in the 19th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 39,600 residents
- Description: city in Western Province, Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Kalutara South”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Richmond Castle and Muslim Central College.
Richmond Castle
Castle
Photo: The National Archives UK, No restrictions.
Richmond Castle is an Edwardian mansion, located near Kalutara. Built between 1900 and 1910, it was formally the country seat of Mudaliyar Don Arthur de Silva Wijesinghe Siriwardena.
Muslim Central College
School
Muslim Central College or Kalutara Muslim Central College is a government located in Kalutara, Sri Lanka. The school was established in 1918 when the 'Kur-Aan Madharasa' religious school was converted into a Tamil medium school, with 150 students.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nagoda.
Kalutara
- Category: locality
- Location: Kalutara Divisional Secretariat, Kalutara District, Western Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
6.5835° or 6° 35′ 1″ northLongitude
79.9613° or 79° 57′ 41″ eastPopulation
39,600Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)IATA airport code
KTYUnited Nations Location Code
LK KLTOpen location code
6JRXHXM6+CGOpenStreetMap ID
node 1822512017OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1241964Wikidata ID
Q1295530
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Kalutara” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كالوتارا”
- Armenian: “Կալուտարա”
- Asturian: “Kalutara”
- Belarusian: “Калутара”
- Bengali: “কালুতারা”
- Bulgarian: “Калутара”
- Catalan: “Kalutara”
- Cebuano: “Kalutara”
- Chinese: “卡盧特勒”
- Chinese: “卡魯塔拉”
- Chinese: “卡鲁塔拉”
- Czech: “Kalutara”
- Danish: “Kalutara”
- Dutch: “Kalutara”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كالوتارا”
- Finnish: “Kalutara”
- French: “Kalutara”
- Friulian: “Kalutara”
- German: “Kalutara”
- Greek: “Καλουτάρα”
- Gujarati: “કાલુતરા”
- Hindi: “कलूतारा”
- Indonesian: “Kalutara”
- Italian: “Kalutara”
- Japanese: “カルタラ”
- Kannada: “ಕಲುತಾರ”
- Korean: “칼루타라”
- Latvian: “Kalutara”
- Lithuanian: “Kalutara”
- Malay: “Kalutara”
- Marathi: “कटुरात”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalutara”
- Persian: “کالوتارا”
- Polish: “Kalutara”
- Portuguese: “Kalutara”
- Russian: “Калутара”
- Sindhi: “ڪالوتارا”
- Sinhala: “කලුතර”
- Sinhala: “කළුතර”
- Spanish: “Kalutara”
- Swedish: “Kalutara”
- Tamil: “களுத்துறை”
- Tamil: “க்ளுட்டாரா”
- Telugu: “కాలుతారా”
- Thai: “กาลูทารา”
- Turkish: “Kalutara”
- Ukrainian: “Калутара”
- Urdu: “کالوتارا”
- Venetian: “Kalutara”
- Vietnamese: “Kalutara”
- Welsh: “Kalutara”
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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 “Kalutara”. Photo: Travel Kalutara, CC BY-SA 4.0.