Jaffna
Sri Lanka · Northern Province
Jaffna is the capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. It is the administrative headquarters of the Jaffna District located on a peninsula of the same name. With a population of 88,138 in 2012, Jaffna is Sri Lanka's 12th most populous city. Jaffna is approximately ten kilometres from Kandarodai which served as an emporium in the Jaffna peninsula from classical antiquity. Jaffna's suburb Nallur served as the capital of the four-century-long medieval Tamil Jaffna Kingdom.
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Practical facts
- Local time
- UTC+5:30 · 11.5 h ahead of Costa Rica
- Region
- Northern Province
- On the map
- 9.66° N, 80.01° E
Near Jaffna
- Rameswaram · 87 km away
- Anuradhapura · 156 km away
- Thanjavur · 158 km away
- Kalpitiya · 162 km away
- Puttalam · 182 km away
- Sigiriya · 208 km away
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