Matara

Matara is a city in the Southern Province of . The Southern Province consists of three districts and the city of Matara lies between and which are the other districts of Southern Province.
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  • City with 110,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 9 metres (30 feet)
  • Description: city in Southern, Sri Lanka
  • Also known as
    “Matara, Sri Lanka”
    “Māttaṟai”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Matara railway station and Shrine of Our Lady of Matara.
Hafiz Issadeen, CC BY 2.0.
is a station in Matara, .
is a Roman Catholic…
St. Servatius' College is a boys' school located in Matara, Sri Lanka.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Walgama.
is a village in .

Matara

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Latitude
5.9478° or 5° 56′ 52″ north
Longitude
80.5483° or 80° 32′ 54″ east
UN/LOCODE
LK MTA
Open location code
6MQ2WGXX+48
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3639539242
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1235846
Wiki­data ID
Q13360574

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Matara” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ماتارا”
  • Asturian: “Matara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Matara”
  • Bengali: “মাতারা”
  • Catalan: “Matara”
  • Cebuano: “Matara”
  • Chinese: “馬塔拉 (斯里蘭卡)”
  • Chinese: “馬塔拉”
  • Chinese: “馬特勒”
  • Danish: “Matara”
  • Dutch: “Matara”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماتارا”
  • Esperanto: “Matara”
  • Finnish: “Matara”
  • French: “Matara”
  • Georgian: “მატარა”
  • German: “Matara”
  • Greek: “Ματάρα”
  • Gujarati: “મટારા”
  • Hindi: “मतारा”
  • Hungarian: “Matara”
  • Indonesian: “Matara, Sri Lanka”
  • Indonesian: “Matara”
  • Italian: “Matara”
  • Japanese: “マータラ”
  • Kannada: “ಮತರ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾತಾರ”
  • Korean: “마타라”
  • Latvian: “Matara”
  • Lithuanian: “Matara”
  • Malay: “Matara”
  • Marathi: “मटार”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Matara”
  • Persian: “ماتارا”
  • Polish: “Matara”
  • Russian: “Матара”
  • Sinhala: “මාතර”
  • Slovenian: “Matara”
  • Spanish: “Matara”
  • Swahili: “Matara”
  • Swedish: “Matara”
  • Tamil: “மாத்தறை”
  • Tamil: “மாத்துறை”
  • Telugu: “మటారా”
  • Thai: “มาตาระ”
  • Turkish: “Matara”
  • Ukrainian: “Матара”
  • Urdu: “ماتارا، سری لنکا”
  • Urdu: “ماتارا”
  • Urdu: “ماترا، سری لنکا”
  • Vietnamese: “Matara”

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