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Kurunegala

Kurunegala is a major city in . It is the capital city of the and the . Kurunegala was an ancient royal capital for 50 years, from the end of the 13th century to the start of the 14th century.
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Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
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  • Type: City with 30,300 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Kornegalle” and “Kurunegald”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kurunegala railway station and Ibbagala Raja Maha Vihara.

Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a major station, situated in the , . It is the 5th railway station on the Northern Line and 39th overall from the Colombo Fort Railway Station, at an elevation of 122.86 metres above sea level.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Kurun, Public domain.
is an ancient Cave temple in , . The temple is situated in middle of the Kurunegala town and lies in the mid valley area of the Ethagala Rock.

School
is a national school controlled by the Sri Lankan central government. It is located in Kurunegala, , and was established in 1888 by the Buddhist Theosophical Society, led by Colonel Henry Steel Olcott.

Kurunegala

Latitude
7.487° or 7° 29′ 13″ north
Longitude
80.3649° or 80° 21′ 54″ east
Population
30,300
Elevation
146 metres (479 feet)
United Nations Location Code
LK KUR
Open location code
6MV2F9P7+RX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2907017040
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1237980
Wiki­data ID
Q776887
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Kurunegala” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kuruṇǣgala”
  • Arabic: “كورونيغالا”
  • Asturian: “Kurunegala”
  • Bengali: “কুরুনেগালা”
  • Catalan: “Kurunegala”
  • Cebuano: “Kuruṇǣgala”
  • Cebuano: “Kurunegala”
  • Chinese: “库鲁内加拉”
  • Chinese: “库鲁内格勒”
  • Chinese: “库鲁加加拉”
  • Chinese: “庫魯內加拉”
  • Chinese: “庫魯內格勒”
  • Danish: “Kurunegala”
  • Dutch: “Kurunegala”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كورونيجالا”
  • Esperanto: “Kurunegala”
  • Finnish: “Kurunegala”
  • French: “Kurunegala”
  • German: “Kurunegala”
  • Greek: “Κουρουνεγκάλα”
  • Gujarati: “કુરુનેગલા”
  • Hebrew: “קורונגלה”
  • Hiligaynon: “Kuruṇǣgala”
  • Hindi: “कुरुनेगल”
  • Hindi: “कुरुनेगला”
  • Hungarian: “Kurunegala”
  • Indonesian: “Kurunegala”
  • Irish: “Kuruṇǣgala”
  • Italian: “Kurunegala”
  • Japanese: “クルネーガラ”
  • Kannada: “ಕುರುನೆಗಲ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಲ್ಲೂರು”
  • Korean: “쿠루네갈라”
  • Latvian: “Kurunegala”
  • Lithuanian: “Kurunegala”
  • Malay: “Kurunegala”
  • Marathi: “कुरुनेगाला”
  • Mingrelian: “კურუნეგალა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kurunegala”
  • Persian: “کورونیگالا”
  • Polish: “Kurunegala”
  • Portuguese: “Curunégala”
  • Portuguese: “Kurunegala”
  • Russian: “Курунегала”
  • Sinhala: “කුරුණෑගල නගරය”
  • Sinhala: “කුරුණෑගල”
  • Spanish: “Curunégala”
  • Spanish: “Kurunegala”
  • Swedish: “Kurunegala”
  • Tagalog: “Kuruṇǣgala”
  • Tamil: “குருணாகல்”
  • Telugu: “కురునేగాల”
  • Thai: “กุรุเนคละ”
  • Thai: “คูรูเนกาลา”
  • Turkish: “Kurunegala”
  • Ukrainian: “Курунегала”
  • Ukrainian: “Курунеґала”
  • Urdu: “کرنیگالا”
  • Veps: “Kurunegal”
  • Vietnamese: “Kurunegala”
  • “Kuruṇǣgala”

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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 “Kurunegala”. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.