Nuwara Eliya

Nuwara Eliya is a city in the Hill Country of . At 1,868 m altitude, the architecture and temperate climate gives it a very different feel from the rest of the country.
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  • Type: City with 27,500 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Nuwari Eliya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Galway’s Land National Park and Nuwara Eliya Racecourse.

Evergreen forest
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Galways Land National Park is a small 27 ha national park consisting of dense montane forest. It is located within the city limits of Nuwara Eliya in , approximately 2 km east of the city centre.

Stadium
Photo: Dennismuthu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
in Nuwara Eliya, is the only remaining horse racing venue in Sri Lanka. Situated 1,868 metres above sea level the race course is one of the highest in the world.

Peak
is a 2,100-metre-high mountain situated in the of . It is the 10th highest mountain in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nanu Oya.

Town
Photo: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village in , named after the river. It is located within in the and is situated approximately 8 km away from Nuwara Eliya.

Nuwara Eliya

Latitude
6.9739° or 6° 58′ 26″ north
Longitude
80.7671° or 80° 46′ 2″ east
Population
27,500
Elevation
1,868 metres (6,129 feet)
IATA airport code
NUA
Open location code
6MR2XQF8+HV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 44240758
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1232783
Wiki­data ID
Q1340579
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Nuwara Eliya” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نوارا إليا”
  • Armenian: “Նուվարա Էլիյա”
  • Asturian: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Bengali: “নুওয়ারা এলিয়া”
  • Bengali: “নুয়ারা এলিয়া”
  • Catalan: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Cebuano: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Chinese: “努沃勒埃利耶”
  • Czech: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Danish: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Dutch: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نوارا اليا”
  • Esperanto: “Nuvara Elija”
  • Esperanto: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Finnish: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • French: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • German: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Greek: “Νουβάρα Ελίγια”
  • Gujarati: “નુવારા એલિયા”
  • Hebrew: “נווארה אליה”
  • Hindi: “नुवरा एलिया”
  • Hindi: “नुवारा एलिया”
  • Indonesian: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Italian: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Japanese: “ヌワラ・エリヤ”
  • Japanese: “ヌワラエリヤ”
  • Kannada: “ನಾವರ ಎಲಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯುವಾರ ಎಲಿಯ”
  • Korean: “누와라 엘리야”
  • Korean: “누와라엘리야”
  • Latvian: “Nuvara Elija”
  • Lithuanian: “Nuvara Ilaja”
  • Malay: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Malayalam: “നുവര എലിയ, നുവരെലിയ”
  • Malayalam: “നുവാര ഏലിയ”
  • Marathi: “नुवरा एलीया”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nuwara Eilya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Norwegian: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Persian: “نووارا الیا”
  • Persian: “نووارا الییا”
  • Polish: “Nuwara Elija”
  • Polish: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Portuguese: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Russian: “Нувара Элия”
  • Russian: “Нувара-Элия”
  • Sinhala: “නුවරඑළිය”
  • Slovenian: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Spanish: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Swedish: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Tamil: “நுவரெலியா”
  • Tamil: “நுவரேலியா”
  • Telugu: “నువరా ఎలియా”
  • Telugu: “నువారా ఎలియా”
  • Thai: “นูวาราเอลิยา”
  • Turkish: “Kurunegala”
  • Turkish: “Nuwara Eliya”
  • Ukrainian: “Нувара-Елія”
  • Urdu: “نووارا الییا”
  • Uzbek: “Nuwara Eliya tumani”
  • Vietnamese: “Nuwara Eliya”

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