Puttalam
Puttalam is an industrial and agricultural processing town in the Puttalam district of Sri Lanka, but the surrounding area has a few tourist attractions.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Puttalam railway station and Puttalam Hindu Central College.
Puttalam railway station
Railway station
Puttalam railway station is a railway station in the Puttalam District, North Western Province, Sri Lanka. The station is served by Sri Lanka Railways, which is the state-run railway operator.
Puttalam Hindu Central College
School
Puttalam Hindu Central College is a national school in Puttalam, Sri Lanka It was founded in 1979 by the late Nadaraja Devar and the late Ratnasingam.
Puttalam
- Type: City with 45,400 residents
- Description: large town in North Western Province, Sri Lanka
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Puttalam Divisional Secretariat, Puttalam District, North Western Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
8.0302° or 8° 1′ 49″ northLongitude
79.8287° or 79° 49′ 43″ eastPopulation
45,400Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)United Nations Location Code
LK PTLOpen location code
6JWX2RJH+3FOpenStreetMap ID
node 330173100OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Puttalam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بطالة”
- Arabic: “بوتالام”
- Bengali: “পুট্টালাম”
- Catalan: “Puttalam”
- Cebuano: “Puttalam”
- Chinese: “普塔勒姆”
- Chinese: “普塔勒姆區”
- Chinese: “普塔拉”
- Danish: “Puttalam”
- Dutch: “Puttalam”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوتالام”
- Finnish: “Puttalam”
- French: “Puttalam”
- German: “Puttalam”
- Greek: “Πούταλαμ”
- Gujarati: “પટ્ટાલામ”
- Hindi: “पुट्टलम”
- Indonesian: “Puttalam”
- Irish: “Puttalam”
- Italian: “Puttalam”
- Japanese: “プッタラム”
- Kannada: “ಪುಟ್ಟಲಮ್”
- Kannada: “ಪುತ್ತಲಂ”
- Korean: “푸탈람”
- Latvian: “Putalama”
- Lithuanian: “Putalamas”
- Malay: “Puttalam”
- Marathi: “पट्टालाम”
- Mingrelian: “პუტალამი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Puttalam”
- Persian: “پوتالام”
- Polish: “Puttalam”
- Portuguese: “Putalão”
- Russian: “Путталам”
- Sinhala: “Puttlam district”
- Sinhala: “පුත්තලම”
- Spanish: “Puttalam”
- Swedish: “Puttalam”
- Tamil: “புத்தளம்”
- Telugu: “పుత్తాలం”
- Thai: “ปัตตาลัม”
- Turkish: “Puttalam”
- Ukrainian: “Путталам”
- Urdu: “پٹلم”
- Urdu: “پوٹالام”
- Vietnamese: “Puttalam”
- Yue Chinese: “普塔勒姆區”
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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 “Puttalam”. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.