Mannar
Mannar is the main town of Mannar District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka. It is governed by an Urban Council. The town is located on Mannar Island overlooking the Gulf of Mannar and is home to the historic Ketheeswaram temple.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 35,800 residents
- Description: town in Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Manaar”, “Maṉṉār”, “Mannar Town”, “Mannar, Sri Lanka”, and “Mannārama”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Sebastian’s Cathedral, Mannar and Mannar Hospital.
St. Sebastian’s Cathedral, Mannar
Church
Photo: Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St. Sebastian's Cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mannar located in Mannar, Sri Lanka.
Mannar Hospital
Hospital
Mannar Hospital is a government hospital in Mannar, Sri Lanka. It is the leading hospital in Mannar District and is controlled by the provincial government in Jaffna.
Mannar
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Mannar Town, Mannar District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
8.9813° or 8° 58′ 53″ northLongitude
79.9044° or 79° 54′ 16″ eastPopulation
35,800Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
LK MANOpen location code
6JWXXWJ3+GQOpenStreetMap ID
node 1886592110OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Mannar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منار، سريلانكا”
- Asturian: “Mannar”
- Bengali: “মান্নার , শ্রীলংকা”
- Bengali: “মান্নার”
- Bulgarian: “Манар”
- Catalan: “Mannar”
- Cebuano: “Mannar”
- Chinese: “馬納 (斯里蘭卡)”
- Chinese: “馬納爾 (斯里蘭卡)”
- Chinese: “馬納爾”
- Chinese: “马纳尔”
- Danish: “Mannar”
- Dutch: “Mannar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “منار”
- Finnish: “Mannar, Sri Lanka”
- French: “Mannar”
- Friulian: “Mannar”
- German: “Mannar”
- Greek: “Μανάρ”
- Gujarati: “મન્નાર, શ્રીલંકા”
- Hebrew: “מאנאר”
- Hindi: “मन्नार”
- Indonesian: “Mannar, Sri Lanka”
- Italian: “Mannar”
- Japanese: “マンナール”
- Kannada: “ತೆಂಕಾಸಿ”
- Kannada: “ಮನ್ನಾರ್, ಶ್ರೀಲಂಕಾ”
- Korean: “마나”
- Korean: “만나르”
- Latvian: “Manara”
- Lithuanian: “Manaras, Šri Lanka”
- Malay: “Mannar, Sri Lanka”
- Malayalam: “മന്നാർ, ശ്രീലങ്ക”
- Marathi: “मन्नार, श्रीलंका”
- Mingrelian: “მანარი (შრი-ლანკა)”
- Mingrelian: “მანარი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mannar”
- Norwegian: “Mannar”
- Persian: “منار”
- Polish: “Mannar, Sri Lanka”
- Polish: “Mannar”
- Portuguese: “Manar (Siri Lanka)”
- Portuguese: “Manar”
- Portuguese: “Mannar”
- Russian: “Маннар”
- Sinhala: “මන්නාරම”
- Spanish: “Mannar”
- Swedish: “Mannar”
- Tamil: “மன்னார்”
- Telugu: “మన్నార్”
- Thai: “มันนาร์”
- Turkish: “Mannar, Sri Lanka”
- Ukrainian: “Маннар”
- Urdu: “مانار، سری لنکا”
- Venetian: “Mannar”
- Vietnamese: “Mannar, Sri Lanka”
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