Matale
Matale is a city in the Central Province of Sri Lanka about 150 km away from Colombo, and 25 km north of Kandy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 40,800 residents
- Description: Administrative Capital in Central Province, Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Matale Town” and “Māttaḷai”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Matale railway station and Zahira College.
Matale railway station
Railway station
Matale Railway Station is the terminus railway station on the Matale railway line of Sri Lanka. It is the 65th railway station on the line from Colombo Fort railway station and is located in the Matale District in the Central Province.
Zahira College
School
Zahira College Matale, is one of the oldest schools in the Matale District. It is situated in the centre of the city.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aluwihare and Harasgama.
Aluwihare
Suburb
Aluwihare is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Matale District, which lies in Central Province. The village is famous because of Aluvihare Rock Temple.
Mandandawela
Village
Mandandawela is a suburb of Matale, located within the Central Province, Sri Lanka.
Matale
- Category: locality
- Location: Matale Divisional Secretariat, Matale District, Central Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
7.472° or 7° 28′ 19″ northLongitude
80.6234° or 80° 37′ 24″ eastPopulation
40,800Elevation
366 metres (1,201 feet)United Nations Location Code
LK MLEOpen location code
6MV2FJCF+R9OpenStreetMap ID
node 258049423OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Matale” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماتال”
- Arabic: “ماتالي”
- Asturian: “Matale”
- Bengali: “মাথাল”
- Catalan: “Matale”
- Cebuano: “Matale”
- Chinese: “馬特萊”
- Chinese: “马特莱”
- Danish: “Matale”
- Dutch: “Matale”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماتال”
- Finnish: “Matale”
- French: “Matale”
- German: “Matale”
- Greek: “Ματάλε”
- Gujarati: “મટાલે”
- Hindi: “मताले”
- Indonesian: “Matale”
- Italian: “Matale”
- Japanese: “マータレー”
- Kannada: “ಮತಲೆ”
- Kannada: “ಮಾಟಲೆ”
- Korean: “마탈레”
- Korean: “마탈르”
- Latvian: “Matale”
- Lithuanian: “Matalė”
- Malay: “Matale”
- Marathi: “मटाले”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Matale”
- Persian: “متاله”
- Polish: “Matale”
- Portuguese: “Matale”
- Russian: “Матале”
- Sinhala: “මාතලේ”
- Spanish: “Matale”
- Swedish: “Matale”
- Tamil: “மாத்தளை”
- Telugu: “మాటేల్”
- Thai: “มาตาเล”
- Turkish: “Matale”
- Ukrainian: “Матале”
- Urdu: “ماتالے”
- Vietnamese: “Matale”
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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 “Matale”. Photo: Olitheeban, CC BY-SA 4.0.