Sigiriya

Sigiriya is a city in the Central District of . The "Ancient City of Sigiriya" is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: Ruins
  • Description: ancient rock fortress near Dambulla, Sri Lanka.
  • Also known as: “Lion Rock”, “Sigiri”, “Sigiri, Ceylon”, and “Sinhagiri”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Pidurangala Vihara and Pidurangala Rock.

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is an ancient situated on in , . The rock is located about 1 km north of the more visited Sigiriya rock.

Peak
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is a rocky outcrop located in central , in the , about 1 km north of the more well-known Sigiriya rock.

Sigiriya

Latitude
7.9571° or 7° 57′ 25″ north
Longitude
80.7573° or 80° 45′ 26″ east
Population
1,000
Elevation
207 metres (679 feet)
IATA airport code
GIU
United Nations Location Code
LK SIG
Open location code
6MV2XQ44+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 217591865
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Geo­Names ID
1228051
Wiki­data ID
Q272153
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Sigiriya” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سيجيريا”
  • Armenian: “Սիգիրիա”
  • Assamese: “ছিগিৰিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Sigiriya”
  • Belarusian: “Сігірыя”
  • Bengali: “সিগিরিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Sigirija”
  • Bulgarian: “Сигирия”
  • Burmese: “ဆီဂီရိယမြို့”
  • Burmese: “သီဂိရိယမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Sigiriya”
  • Cebuano: “Sigiriya”
  • Chinese: “西格利亚”
  • Chinese: “赛格瑞亚”
  • Chinese: “錫吉里耶”
  • Chinese: “锡吉里耶”
  • Croatian: “Sigirija”
  • Czech: “Sigirija”
  • Czech: “Sigiriya”
  • Danish: “Sigiriya”
  • Dutch: “Sigiriya”
  • Dutch: “Sigirya”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيجيريا”
  • Estonian: “Sigiriya muistne linn”
  • French: “Sigiriya”
  • French: “Sigirîya”
  • Georgian: “სიგირიია”
  • German: “Festung Sigiriya”
  • German: “Löwenfelsen”
  • German: “Sigirija”
  • German: “Sigiriya”
  • Greek: “Σιγκιρίγια”
  • Gujarati: “સીગીરીયા”
  • Hebrew: “סיגירייה”
  • Hindi: “सिगिरिय”
  • Hungarian: “Szigirija”
  • Indonesian: “Sigiriya”
  • Irish: “Sigiriya”
  • Italian: “Sigiriya”
  • Japanese: “シーギリヤ”
  • Japanese: “シギリヤ”
  • Japanese: “シギリヤロック”
  • Japanese: “古都シギリヤ”
  • Kazakh: “Сигирия”
  • Korean: “시기리야”
  • Lithuanian: “Sigirija”
  • Macedonian: “Сигирија”
  • Maithili: “सिगिरिया”
  • Malayalam: “Sigiriya”
  • Malayalam: “സിഗരിയ”
  • Malayalam: “സിഗിരിയ”
  • Maltese: “Sigiriya”
  • Maltese: “Sinhagiri”
  • Nepali: “सिगिरिया”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sigiriya”
  • Norwegian: “Sigiriya”
  • Oriya: “ସିଗିରିୟା”
  • Oriya: “ସିଂହଗିରି”
  • Persian: “سیگیرییا”
  • Polish: “Sigirija”
  • Polish: “Sigiriya”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Antiga de Sigiriya”
  • Portuguese: “Sigiriya”
  • Romanian: “Sigiriya”
  • Russian: “Сигирия”
  • Serbian: “Сигирија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sigirija”
  • Sinhala: “සීගිරිය”
  • Slovak: “Sígiri”
  • Slovak: “Sígirija”
  • Slovenian: “Sigirija”
  • Spanish: “La roca de leon”
  • Spanish: “Sigiriya”
  • Swedish: “Sigiriya”
  • Tamil: “சிகிரியா”
  • Tamil: “சிங்ககிரி”
  • Tatar: “Сигирия борынгы кальгасы”
  • Telugu: “సిగిరియా”
  • Thai: “Sigiriya”
  • Thai: “สีคิริยะ”
  • Turkish: “Sigiriya”
  • Ukrainian: “Сігірія”
  • Urdu: “سیگیرییا”
  • Vietnamese: “Sigiriya”
  • Wu Chinese: “锡吉里耶”

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