Sammanthurai
Sammanthurai is a town of over 60,000 people in the Ampara District of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. It's renowned for its rice paddies and its inner harbour from ancient times - although it is now more than 4 km from the coast of the Bay of Bengal.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: L Manju, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 15,000 residents
- Description: town in Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Sammanturai”
Sammanthurai
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Sammanthurai Divisional Secretariat, Ampara District, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
7.358° or 7° 21′ 29″ northLongitude
81.7963° or 81° 47′ 47″ eastPopulation
15,000Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)Open location code
6MV39Q5W+5GOpenStreetMap ID
node 1877385081OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1228320Wikidata ID
Q12980702
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Tamil—“Sammanthurai” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Sammanthurai”
- Bengali: “সম্মানথুরাই”
- Irish: “Sammanthurai”
- Japanese: “サマンスライ”
- Persian: “سامانتورای”
- Sinhala: “සමන්තුරේ”
- Tamil: “சம்மாந்துறை”
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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 “Sammanthurai”. Photo: L Manju, CC BY-SA 4.0.