Mannar
Mannar is a town and district in the Northern province of Sri Lanka. Tourists come here to catch a glimpse of the greater flamingoes during the bird migration season.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Arepticous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 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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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 “Mannar”. Photo: Arepticous, CC BY-SA 4.0.