Sacred City of Kandy

World Heritage

Sri Lanka

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This Buddhist holy site, popularly known as Senkadagarapura, was the last capital of the Sinhalese kings, whose patronage allowed the Dinahara culture to flourish for more than 2,500 years until the British occupied Sri Lanka in 1815. It is also home to the Temple of the Tooth (the sacred tooth of the Buddha), a famous pilgrimage site.

# Pilgrimage site

# Buddhist holy places

# Senkadagarapura City

# Sinhalese King

# Dinahara Culture

# Temple of the Tooth Relic

View from the Arthur's seat

The Royal Palace of Kandy

Panoramic view of the Kandy lake

View from the Arthur's seat

Portuguese governor Pedro Lopes de Sousa welcomes Kusumasana Devi a.k.a Dona Catharina during the ca...

The Temple of the Tooth Relic in Kandy

Downtown Kandy

Kandy World Heritage Site marker

The Kandyan Convention signed between the British and the Kandyan Chiefs in 1815

Temple of the Tooth Relic, Kandy

Peradeniya Botanical garden

Kandy and environs, incl the Royal Botanical Gardens at Peradeniya, ca 1914

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Information extracted from Wikidata

office held by head of the organization	http://g.co/kg/m/01sg4_
postal code	20000
Commons category	Kandy
coordinate location	Point(80.638452777 7.296961111)
official website	http://kandy.mc.gov.lk/
page banner	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SL%20Kandy%20BANNER%20asv2020-01.jpg
Dewey Decimal Classification	2--5493
capital of	Kandy District
category of associated people	Category:People from Kandy
elevation above sea level	500
area	27
World Heritage criteria	Larousse Encyclopedia online
World Heritage criteria	World Heritage selection criterion (vi)
uses	4109992-8
country	Sri Lanka
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image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Street%20of%20Kandy.jpg
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executive body	Kandy
official language	Kandy District
IPA transcription	2041158
number of rooms	lccn-n84018927

population	161000
point in time	2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
described by source	Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
page(s)	236
volume	5
described by source	The Nuttall Encyclopædia
stated as	Kandy
start time	1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
official name	مدينة كاندي المقدسة
official name	Sacred City of Kandy
official name	Ciudad sagrada de Kandy
official name	Ville sacrée de Kandy
official name	聖地キャンディ
official name	Heilige stad van Kandy
official name	Священный город Канди
official name	康提圣城
volume as quantity	Larousse Encyclopedia online
volume as quantity	World Heritage selection criterion (vi)