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Dalhousie, Sri Lanka
Dalhousie, Nallathanniya or Delhousie is a village in Nuwara Eliya District, Sri Lanka. The place is situated en route to Adam's Peak. The village borrowed its name from a nearby tea estate. See also *Locations in Sri Lanka with a Scottish name This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been given to parts of Sri Lanka by Scottish planters. Almost without exception Scottish place names in Sri Lanka occur either in the Hill Country plantations or in Colombo. As the ... Populated places in Nuwara Eliya District {{NuwaraEliyaDistrict-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, and southeast of the Arabian Sea; it is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. Sri Lanka shares a maritime border with India and Maldives. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is its legislative capital, and Colombo is its largest city and financial centre. Sri Lanka has a population of around 22 million (2020) and is a multinational state, home to diverse cultures, languages, and ethnicities. The Sinhalese are the majority of the nation's population. The Tamils, who are a large minority group, have also played an influential role in the island's history. Other long established groups include the Moors, the Burghers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam's Peak
Adam's Peak is a tall conical mountain located in central Sri Lanka. It is well known for the Sri Pada ( si, ශ්රී පාද), i.e., "sacred footprint", a rock formation near the summit, which in Buddhist tradition is held to be the footprint of the Buddha, in Hindu tradition that of Hanuman or Shiva (), i.e., "Mountain of Shiva's Light", and in some Islamic and Christian traditions that of Adam, or that of St. Thomas. Geography The mountain is located in the southern reaches of the Central Highlands in the Ratnapura District and Nuwara Eliya District of the Sabaragamuwa Province and Central Province —lying about northeast of Ratnapura and southwest of Hatton. The surrounding region is largely forested hills, with no mountain of comparable size nearby. The region along the mountain is a wildlife reserve, housing many species varying from elephants to leopards, and including many endemic species. Adam's Peak is important as a watershed. The distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locations In Sri Lanka With A Scottish Name
This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been given to parts of Sri Lanka by Scottish planters. Almost without exception Scottish place names in Sri Lanka occur either in the Hill Country plantations or in Colombo. As the Scottish coffee and tea planters, including Sri Lanka's first tea planter James Taylor, settled in the country, they named their plantations after their home towns in Scotland. Charles Hay Cameron and his sons named their estates after Lochiel and Erroll their ancestral peerages, as well as Moray, Forres, Glencairn and St Regulus. In Colombo, places were named after Sri Lanka's British governors including Thomas Maitland. Hill Country * Abbey Craig * Aberdeen Falls Senanayake 2004: 1 * Argyle * Arthur's Seat * Balmoral * Banff * Barcaple * Blair Atholl * Blinkbonney * Braemore * Braemar * Caledonia * Camnethan * Caskieben * Clydesdale * Craig * Craigie Lea * Cullen * Dalhousie * Dunbar * Dunsinane * Dunkeld * Edinburgh * Elgin - na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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