South Asia
Sri Lanka
Eastern Province

Trincomalee

Trincomalee is a city in northeastern Sri Lanka. Trinco is emerging as a tourist destination thanks to its incredible history and beaches, especially those just north of town.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Fredrick and Trincomalee railway station.

Fort
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, also known as Trincomalee Fort or Fort of Triquillimale, is a fort built by the Portuguese at Trincomalee, , , completed in 1624 CE, built on Swami Rock-Konamamalai from the debris of the world-famous ancient Hindu Koneswaram temple.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the city of Trincomalee in eastern . Owned by Sri Lanka Railways, the state-owned railway operator, the station is the eastern terminus of the Trincomalee Line which links with the capital .

Hospital
is a government hospital in Trincomalee, . It is the leading hospital in and is controlled by the provincial government in Trincomalee.

Trincomalee

Latitude
8.5764° or 8° 34′ 35″ north
Longitude
81.2345° or 81° 14′ 4″ east
Population
99,100
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
TRR
United Nations Location Code
LK TRR
Open location code
6MW3H6GM+HQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 335253618
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1226260
Wiki­data ID
Q323873
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Trincomalee” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ترينكومالي”
  • Asturian: “Trincomalee”
  • Belarusian: “Гакарна”
  • Belarusian: “Трынкамалі”
  • Bengali: “ত্রিঙ্কোমালি”
  • Bengali: “ত্রিনকোমালি”
  • Breton: “Trincomalee”
  • Bulgarian: “Тринкомале”
  • Catalan: “Trincomalee”
  • Cebuano: “Trincomalee”
  • Chinese: “亭可馬里”
  • Chinese: “亭可马里”
  • Czech: “Tirinkumalí”
  • Czech: “Trincomalee”
  • Danish: “Trincomalee”
  • Dutch: “Trincomalee”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ترينكومالى”
  • Esperanto: “Trinkomali”
  • Finnish: “Trincomalee”
  • French: “Trincomalee”
  • French: “Trinquemalay”
  • French: “Trinquemale”
  • Galician: “Trincomalee”
  • Georgian: “ტრინკომალი”
  • German: “Trincomalee”
  • German: “Trinkomali”
  • Greek: “Τρινκομάλε”
  • Gujarati: “ટ્રિંકોમલી, શ્રીલંકા”
  • Gujarati: “તિરુક્કૉણમલૈ”
  • Gujarati: “ત્રિંકોમલી”
  • Hebrew: “טרינקומלי”
  • Hindi: “तिरुकोणमलै”
  • Hindi: “तिरुक्कॉणमलै”
  • Hindi: “त्रिंकोमली”
  • Hungarian: “Trincomalee”
  • Indonesian: “Trincomalee”
  • Irish: “Trincomalee”
  • Italian: “Trincomalee”
  • Japanese: “ツリンコマリー”
  • Japanese: “トリンコマリー”
  • Kannada: “ಟ್ರಿಂಕೋಮಾಲೀ”
  • Kannada: “ತಿರುಕೋಣಮಲೈ”
  • Kannada: “ತಿರುಕ್ಕೋಣಮಲೈ”
  • Korean: “트링코말리”
  • Latvian: “Trinkomali”
  • Latvian: “Trinkomalī”
  • Lithuanian: “Trinkomalis”
  • Malay: “Trincomalee”
  • Malayalam: “ട്രിങ്കോമാലീ”
  • Malayalam: “തിരുക്കോണമല”
  • Marathi: “तिरुकोणमलै”
  • Marathi: “त्रिंकोमली”
  • Marathi: “त्रिंकोमाली”
  • Mingrelian: “ტრინკომალი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Trincomalee”
  • Norwegian: “Trincomalee”
  • Persian: “ترینکومالی”
  • Persian: “ینکومالی”
  • Polish: “Trikunamalaja”
  • Polish: “Trincomalee”
  • Polish: “Trinkomali”
  • Portuguese: “Trincomalee”
  • Portuguese: “Trincomali”
  • Portuguese: “Trinquinimale”
  • Portuguese: “Triquinimale”
  • Romanian: “Trincomalee”
  • Russian: “Трикомали”
  • Russian: “Тринкомали”
  • Sinhala: “ත්‍රිකුණාමලය”
  • Spanish: “Trincomalee”
  • Sundanese: “Trincomalee”
  • Swedish: “Trincomalee”
  • Tamil: “ட்ரின்காமலீ”
  • Tamil: “திரிகோணமலை”
  • Tamil: “திருகோணமலை”
  • Tamil: “திருக்கோணமலை”
  • Telugu: “ట్రింకోమలి”
  • Telugu: “తిరుక్కోణమలై”
  • Thai: “ตริกุณามฬยะ”
  • Thai: “ตรินโคมาลี”
  • Turkish: “Trincomalee”
  • Ukrainian: “Тринкомалі”
  • Ukrainian: “Трінкомалі”
  • Urdu: “ترینکومالی”
  • Veps: “Trikomali”
  • Veps: “Trinkomali”
  • Vietnamese: “Trincomalee”
  • Yue Chinese: “亭可馬里”

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