Kandy
Kandy is in the centre of Sri Lanka 125 km away from Colombo and is generally recognised as the island nation's cultural capital. It is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 125,000 residents
- Description: capital city in Central Province, Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Mahanurora” and “Mahanuwara”
Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY 2.0.
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Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY 2.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic and National Museum of Kandy.
Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic
Buddhist temple
Sri Dalada Maligawa, commonly known in English as the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, is a Buddhist temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is located in the Royal Palace Complex of the former Kingdom of Kandy, which houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha.
National Museum of Kandy
Museum
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Museum of Kandy in Kandy, Sri Lanka is located next to the Temple of the Tooth in part of the former Royal Palace of Kandy. The primary exhibits are housed in the Palle Vahala building, which was the former home of the King's harem.
Royal Palace Complex of Kandy
Museum
The Royal Palace of Kandy, situated in Kandy, Sri Lanka, is a historical complex that served as the official residence for the monarchs of the Kingdom of Kandy until the advent of British colonial rule in 1815.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sirimalwatta and Polgolla.
Kandy
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Central Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
7.2931° or 7° 17′ 35″ northLongitude
80.635° or 80° 38′ 6″ eastPopulation
125,000Elevation
500 metres (1,640 feet)IATA airport code
KDWUnited Nations Location Code
LK KANOpen location code
6MV27JVP+62OpenStreetMap ID
node 2908772560OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1241622Wikidata ID
Q203197
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Kandy” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاندي (مدينه)”
- Arabic: “كاندي”
- Armenian: “Կանդի”
- Asturian: “Kandy”
- Awadhi: “कैन्डी”
- Azerbaijani: “Kandi”
- Basque: “Kandy”
- Belarusian: “Канды”
- Bengali: “ক্যান্ডি”
- Breton: “Kandy”
- Bulgarian: “Канди”
- Burmese: “ကန္ဒီမြို့”
- Catalan: “Kandy”
- Cebuano: “Kandy”
- Cebuano: “Mëhanëgërë”
- Chinese: “康提”
- Chinese: “聖城康提”
- Croatian: “Kandy”
- Czech: “Kandy”
- Danish: “Kandy”
- Dutch: “Kandy”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاندى”
- Esperanto: “Kandi”
- Estonian: “Kandy”
- Finnish: “Kandy”
- French: “Kandy”
- Georgian: “კანდი”
- German: “Candy”
- German: “Kandy”
- German: “Maha Nuwara”
- German: “Senkadagalapura”
- German: “Sri Wardhanapura”
- Greek: “Κάντι”
- Gujarati: “કેન્ડી, શ્રીલંકા”
- Gujarati: “કેન્ડી”
- Hebrew: “קאנדי”
- Hindi: “कैंडी”
- Hungarian: “Kandi”
- Hungarian: “Kandy”
- Indonesian: “Kandy”
- Inupiaq: “Kandy”
- Irish: “Kandy”
- Italian: “Kandy”
- Japanese: “キャンディ”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಂಡಿ”
- Kirghiz: “Канди”
- Korean: “캔디”
- Latvian: “Kandi”
- Lithuanian: “Kandis”
- Maithili: “क्यान्डी”
- Malay: “Kandi, Sri Lanka”
- Malay: “Kandy”
- Malayalam: “Kandy”
- Malayalam: “കണ്ടി”
- Malayalam: “കാൻഡി”
- Maltese: “Kandy”
- Marathi: “कँडी”
- Marathi: “कण्डी”
- Marathi: “कॅन्डी”
- Mingrelian: “კანდი”
- Nepali: “क्यान्डी”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kandy”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kandy”
- Norwegian: “Kandy”
- Panjabi: “ਕੈਂਡੀ”
- Persian: “کندی (سریلانکا)”
- Persian: “کندی”
- Polish: “Kandy”
- Portuguese: “Cândia”
- Portuguese: “Cidade Sagrada de Kandy”
- Portuguese: “Kandy”
- Russian: “Канди”
- Scots: “Kandy”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kandy”
- Silesian: “Kandy”
- Sinhala: “Kandy”
- Sinhala: “නුවර”
- Sinhala: “මහනුවර හෙවත් සෙංකඩගල”
- Sinhala: “මහනුවර”
- Sinhala: “සෙංකඩගල”
- Slovak: “Kandi”
- Slovak: “Kandy”
- Slovak: “Mahanuvara”
- Slovenian: “Kandi”
- Spanish: “Kandy”
- Swedish: “Kandy (provinshuvudstad)”
- Swedish: “Kandy”
- Tamil: “கண்டி”
- Tamil: “செங்கடகலை”
- Tatar: “Канди каласы”
- Telugu: “కాండీ నగరం”
- Telugu: “కాండీ”
- Thai: “กัณฏิ”
- Thai: “กัณฏี”
- Thai: “แคนดี”
- Thai: “เมืองกัณฏี”
- Thai: “เมืองแคนดี”
- Turkish: “Kandy”
- Ukrainian: “Канді”
- Urdu: “کینڈی”
- Uzbek: “Kandi”
- Veps: “Kandi”
- Vietnamese: “Kandy”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kandy”
- Welsh: “Kandy”
- Western Panjabi: “کینڈی”
- Wu Chinese: “康提”
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