Kandy District
Kandy & Four Gravets Gangawata Division
Welata

Kingswood College

Kingswood College, Kandy is a day and boarding school for boys in , . The school educates over 3,500 students from primary to secondary levels and is staffed by more than 300 faculty members.
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  • Type: School
  • Description: public school in Kandy, Sri Lanka
  • Also known as: “KCK” and “Kingswood College, Kandy”
  • Address: Colombo-Kandy Road, Kandy

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic and National Hospital, Kandy.

Buddhist temple
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Sri Dalada Maligawa, commonly known in English as the , is a Buddhist temple in , Sri Lanka. It is located in the of the former Kingdom of Kandy, which houses the relic of the tooth of the Buddha. is situated 3½ km northeast of Kingswood College.

Hospital
Photo: MediaJet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Hospital Kandy is the second largest in with a bed strength of 2741 and is the major tertiary care unit in the . In 2019, Teaching Hospital Kandy was upgraded as the second National Hospital of Sri Lanka. is situated 2 km northeast of Kingswood College.

Museum
Photo: calflier001, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is located in the former Hanthana Tea Factory, which was originally constructed in 1925. It is situated 3 km south of . Hanthana was one of the first successful areas to cultivate tea following the failure of coffee production on the island. is situated 2 km southeast of Kingswood College.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Getambe and Gannoruwa.

Neighborhood
is a village in . It is located within .

Village
is a village in . It is located within . has its own historical connections. In 1638, the Battle of was fought between the Portuguese and the Sinhala forces under King Rajasinha ll and Prince Vijayapala on this land. is situated 2½ km west of Kingswood College.

Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is in the centre of 125 km away from Colombo and is generally recognised as the island nation's cultural capital. It is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Kingswood College

Latitude
7.27766° or 7° 16′ 40″ north
Longitude
80.61579° or 80° 36′ 57″ east
Open location code
6MV27JH8+38
Open­Street­Map ID
node 263179681
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­school
Wiki­data ID
Q6413771
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In Other Languages

From Egyptian Arabic to Sinhala—“Kingswood College” goes by many names.
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كليه كينجسوود”
  • Sinhala: “K.C.K”
  • Sinhala: “කිංග්ස්වුඩ් විද්‍යාලය”
  • Sinhala: “කිංස්වුඩ් විදුහල”

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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 Wikipedia page “Kingswood College”. Photo: Hasindu2008, CC BY-SA 3.0.