Matara
Matara is a city in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. The Southern Province consists of three districts and the city of Matara lies between Galle and Hambantota which are the other districts of Southern Province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hafiz Issadeen, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: KingAlawaka, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 110,000 residents
- Description: city in Southern, Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Matara, Sri Lanka” and “Māttaṟai”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Matara railway station and Shrine of Our Lady of Matara.
Matara railway station
Railway station
Photo: Hafiz Issadeen, CC BY 2.0.
Matara railway station is a station in Matara, Sri Lanka. It is owned and operated by Sri Lanka Railways. Matara railway station opened on 17 December 1895 as the terminus of the Coastal Line.
Shrine of Our Lady of Matara
Church
Shrine of Our Lady of Matara is a Roman Catholic church devoted to the Virgin Mary, in the town of Matara, Sri Lanka. The shrine houses a statue of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus.
St. Servatius’ College, Matara
School
St. Servatius' College is a boys' school located in Matara, Sri Lanka. The school was established in 1897 by recently arrived Belgian Jesuit missionaries, led by Joseph Van Reeth, first bishop of Galle and Father Augustus Standaert.
Matara
- Category: locality
- Location: Matara Four Gravet, Matara District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
5.9478° or 5° 56′ 52″ northLongitude
80.5483° or 80° 32′ 54″ eastPopulation
110,000Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
LK MTAOpen location code
6MQ2WGXX+48OpenStreetMap ID
node 3639539242OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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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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 “Matara”. Photo: KingAlawaka, CC BY-SA 4.0.