A major city in the Central Province of Sri Lanka and the last capital of the Sinhalese monarchy from 1469 to 1818 under the Kingdom of Kandy, situated amid hills on the Kandy plateau. It serves today as the administrative capital of the Central Province and is considered Sri Lanka's cultural capital for its architectural heritage, home to the Temple of the Tooth Relic, one of the most important sites in the Buddhist world, and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988; its Buddhist rulers historically resisted Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial expansion.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Kandy, Wikipedia
Infobox: population_total
125,400
Infobox, Area
Total 28.53 km2 (11.02 sq mi)
Article text
The city is located in between multiple mountain ranges including the Knuckles Mountain Range and the Hanthana Mountain Range, giving the city an elevation of 500 metres (1,600 ft) above sea level.
Infobox, Coordinates
7.2931N 80.635E
- In Group: Cities of Southern Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
View the Source2. Kandy (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia infobox field 'Senkadagalapura' = '14th century' on the 'Kandy' article, read and judged (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 3. GeoNames: Kandy - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1241622
7.2906 80.6336 P PPLA LK 29 111701 500 Asia/Colombo
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 500 m
View the Source 4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 7.25, 80.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 7.25, 80.75
7.25 80.75 Af
Wikidata: Kandy
Wikidata Q203197, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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