Sinhalese Submitted Place Names

Abudabi අබුඩාබි (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Burmese, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Sinhalese, Thai
Form of Abu Dhabi used in multiple languages.

Afganisthanaya ඇෆ්ගනිස්ථානය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Afghanistan.

Ajantinawa ආජන්ටිනාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Argentina.

Albeniyawa ඇල්බේනියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Albania.

Aljiriyawa ඇල්ජීරියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Algeria.

Amerikawa ඇමෙරිකාව (Region & Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of America.

Amstardam ඈම්ස්ටර්ඩෑම් (Settlement) Irish, Sinhalese
Irish and Sinhala form of Amsterdam.

Angolawa ඇන්ගෝලාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Angola.

Antaktikawa ඇන්ටාක්ටිකාව (Region) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Antarctica.

Aprikawa අප්‍රිකාව (Region) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Africa.

Armeniyawa ආර්මේනියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Armenia.

Asarbayijan අසර්බයිජාන් (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Azerbaijan.

Asiyawa ආසියාව (Region) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Asia.

Ayarlantaya අයර්ලන්තය (Country & Island) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Ireland.

Ayislantaya අයිස්ලන්තය (Country & Island) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Iceland.

Baharen බහරේන් (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Bahrein.

Balgeriyawa බල්ගේරියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Bulgaria.

Bangaladeshaya බංග්ලාදේශය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Bangladesh.

Belaras බෙලාරස් (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Belarus.

Belis බෙලීස්เ (Country) Faroese, Sinhalese, Thai
Faroese, Sinhalese and Thai form of Belize.

Belis බෙලීස් (Country) Faroese, Sinhalese, Thai
Faroese, Sinhalese and Thai form of Belize.

Beljiyama බෙල්ජියම‎ (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Belgium.

Bhutanaya භූතානය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Bhutan.

Boliwiyawa බොලිවියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Bolivia.

Brasilaya බ්‍රසීලය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Brazil.

Britanya බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය (Island) Hebrew, Sinhalese, Tagalog, Turkish
Hebrew, Sinhala, Tagalog, and Turkish form of Britain.

Brnayi බෲනායි (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Brunei.

Chinaya චීනය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of China.

Dakunu Aprikawa දකුණු අප්‍රිකාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala calque of South Africa.

Damaskas දමස්කස් (Settlement) Lithuanian, Sinhalese
Lithuanian and Sinhalese form of Damascus.

Denmarkaya ඩෙන්මාර්කය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Denmark.

Dilliya දිල්ලිය (Settlement) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Delhi.

Dubayi ඩුබායි (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Dubai.

El Salwadoraya එල් සැල්වදෝරය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of El Salvador.

Engalantaya එංගලන්තය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of England.

Eritriyawa එරිත්‍රියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Eritrea.

Estoniyawa එස්ටෝනියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Estonia.

Finlantaya ෆින්ලන්තය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Finland.

Ghanawa ඝානාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Ghana.

Grisiya ග්‍රීසිය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Greece.

Hangeriyawa හන්ගේරියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Hungary.

Hanoyi හැනෝයි (Settlement) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Hanoi.

Ijiptuwa ඊජිප්තුව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Egypt.

Ikwadoraya ඉක්වදෝරය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Ecuador.

Irakaya ඉරාකය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Iraq.

Iranaya ඉරානය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Iran.

Ishrayalaya ඊශ්‍රායලය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Israel.

Itiyopiyawa ඉතියෝපියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Ethiopia.

Japanaya ජපානය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Japão (see Japan).

Jarmaniya ජර්මනිය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Germany.

Jibroltawa ජිබ්‍රෝල්ටාව (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Gibraltar.

Jibuti ජිබුටි (Country & Settlement) Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Sinhalese, Turkmen, Urdu
Form of Djibouti.

Jordanaya ජෝර්දානය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Jordan (the country).

Jorjiyawa ජෝර්ජියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Georgia 1.

Kamarun කැමරූන් (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Cameroon.

Kambojaya කාම්බෝජය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Camboja (see Cambodia).

Kanbara කැන්බරා (Settlement) Persian, Sinhalese
Persian and Sinhala form of Canberra.

Kasakastanaya කසකස්තානය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Kazakhstan.

Kasakstanaya කසක්ස්තානය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Kazakhstan.

Katar කටාර් (Country) Afrikaans, Armenian, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovene, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian
Form of Qatar.

Kenyawa කෙන්යාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Kenya.

Kirgistanaya කිර්ගිස්තානය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Kyrgyzstan.

Kolamba කොළඹ (Settlement) Sinhalese
Sinhalese form of Colombo.

Kolombiyawa කොලොම්බියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Colombia.

Komaros කොමරොස් (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Comoros.

Koriyawa කොරියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Korea.

Kosowo කොසෝවො (Country) Polish, Sinhalese, Turkmen
Polish, Sinhala and Turkmen form of Kosovo.

Kosowo කොසෝවො (Country) Polish, Sinhalese, Turkmen, Uyghur
Polish, Sinhala, Turkmen and Uyghur form of Kosovo.

Kuwetaya කුවේටය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Kuwait.

Landan ලන්ඩන් (Settlement) Arabic, Burmese, Hausa, Hindi, Nepali, Persian, Sanskrit, Sinhalese, Urdu
Form of London.

Laosaya ලාඕසය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Laos.

Latwiyawa ලැට්වියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Latvia.

Layibiriyawa ලයිබීරියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Liberia.

Lebananaya ලෙබනනය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Lebanon, referring only to the country.

Lesoto ලෙසොතෝ, ලෙසෝතෝ (Country) Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Macedonian, Maltese, Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovene, Spanish, Tajik, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Form of Lesotho used in numerous languages.

Libiyawa ලිබියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Libya.

Lituweniyawa ලිතුවේනියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Lithuania.

Madagaskaraya මැඩගස්කරය (Country & Island) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Madagascar.

Mahanuwara මහනුවර (Settlement) Sinhalese
Means "great city" derived from Sanskrit महा (maha) meaning "great" combined with Sinhala නුවර (nuwara) meaning "city, town". This is the Sinhala name for Kandy.

Makawo මකාවෝ (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Macau.

Maladiwayina මාලදිවයින (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Maldives.

Malayasiyawa මලයාසියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Malaysia.

Male මාලේ (Settlement) Dhivehi, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Georgian, Greek, Hindi, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Tajik, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek
Dhivehi form of Malé as well as the form used in various other languages.

Maskat මස්කට් (Settlement) Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Czech, German, Kazakh, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovene, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Form of Muscat used in numerous languages.

Matara මාතර (Settlement) Sinhalese
Derived from Sanskrit महा (maha) meaning "great" and तर (tara) meaning "ferry, crossing". This is the name of a city in Sri Lanka.

Meksikowa මෙක්සිකෝව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Mexico, referring only to the country.

Miyanmaraya මියන්මාරය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Myanmar.

Mogadishu මොගඩිෂු (Settlement) English, Albanian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Sinhalese, Swedish, Tagalog
From Somali Muqdisho or Arabic مقديشو (Maqadishu) of uncertain meaning. It may be from Somali meaning "sight killer" or "blinder", possibly referring to the city's blinding beauty, derived from muuq meaning "sight, look, appearance" and disho meaning "kill"... [more]

Moldowa මෝල්ඩෝවා (Country) Afrikaans, Sinhalese, Thai, Turkmen, Uyghur
Form of Moldova used in various languages.

Moltawa මෝල්ටාව (Country & Island) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Malta.

Mongoliyawa මොංගෝලියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Mongolia.

Montinigro මොන්ටිනිග්‍රෝ (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Montenegro.

Morishas මොරිෂස් (Country & Island) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Mauritius.

Moriteniyawa මොරිටේනියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Mauritania.

Morokkowa මොරොක්කෝව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Morocco.

Namibiyawa නැමීබියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Namibia.

Nawa Silantaya නව සීලන්තය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of New Zealand.

Nayijiriyawa නයිජීරියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Nigeria.

Nedarlantaya නෙදර්ලන්තය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Netherlands.

Nepalaya නේපාලය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Nepal.

Norwe නෝර්වේ (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Norway.

Omanaya ඕමානය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Oman.

Ostreliyawa ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව (Region & Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Australia.

Ostriyawa ඔස්ට්‍රියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Austria.

Otawa ඕටවා (River & Settlement) Amharic, Japanese, Korean, Sinhalese
Amharic, Japanese, Korean and Sinhala form of Ottawa.

Pakisthanaya පාකිස්ථානය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Pakistan.

Palastinaya පලස්තීනය (Region & Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Palestine.

Panamawa පැනමාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Panama.

Papuwa Nawaginiya පපුවා නවගිනිය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Papua New Guinea.

Paraguwe පැරගුවේ (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Paraguay.

Pilipinaya පිලිපීනය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Philippines.

Polantaya පෝලන්තය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Poland.

Pothuhera පොතුහැර (Settlement) Sinhalese
The name of a town in Sri Lanka.

Pransaya ප්‍රංශය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of France.

Prtugalaya පෘතුගාලය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Portugal.

Ratnapura රත්නපුර (Settlement) Sinhalese
Means "city of gems" from Sanskrit रत्न (ratna) meaning "jewel, treasure" and पुर (pura) meaning "city"... [more]

Romaya රෝමය (Settlement) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Rome.

Rumeniyawa රුමේනියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Romania.

Rusiyawa රුසියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Russia.

Ruwandawa රුවන්ඩාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Rwanda.

Sambiyawa සැම්බියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Zambia.

Samowa සැමෝවා (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Samoa.

Sarbiyawa සර්බියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Serbia.

Sawudi Arabiyawa සවුදි අරාබියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Saudi Arabia.

Sayipras සයිප්‍රස් (Island & Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Cyprus.

Sayiprasaya සයිප්‍රසය (Island & Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Cyprus.

Senagal සෙනගල් (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Senegal.

Shri Jayawardhanapura Kotte ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ (Settlement) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte.

Shri Lankawa ශ්‍රී ලංකාව (Country & Island) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Sri Lanka.

Sidni සිඩ්නි (Settlement) Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Persian, Sinhalese, Urdu
Form of Sydney used in various languages.

Singappuruwa සිංගප්පූරුව (Country & Island) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Singapore.

Siriyawa සිරියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Syria.

Sishels සීෂෙල්ස් (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Seychelles.

Skotlantaya ස්කොට්ලන්තය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Scotland.

Slowakiyawa ස්ලෝවැකියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Slovakia.

Sloweniyawa ස්ලෝවේනියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Slovenia.

Sol සෝල් (Settlement) Lao, Sinhalese, Thai
Lao, Sinhala and Thai form of Seoul.

Somaliyawa සෝමාලියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Somalia.

Spannaya ස්පාඤ්ඤය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Hispania (see Spain).

Sudanaya සුඩානය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Sudan.

Surinamaya සුරිනාමය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Suriname.

Swidanaya ස්වීඩනය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Sweden.

Switsarlantaya ස්විට්සර්ලන්තය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Switzerland.

Tajikisthanaya ටජිකිස්ථානය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Tajikistan.

Tansaniyawa ටැන්සානියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Tanzania.

Tarkmenistanaya ටර්ක්මෙනිස්තානය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Turkmenistan.

Tayilantaya තායිලන්තය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Thailand.

Tayiwanaya තායිවානය (Island & Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Taiwan.

Tibet ටිබෙට් (Region, Political Subdivision & Country) English, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Turkish, Uzbek
Meaning uncertain, perhaps derived from Tibetan སྟོད་བོད (stod-bod) meaning "Upper Tibet", itself from the autonym བོད (Bod). Alternately the name may be of Turkic origin, possibly from Old Turkic töbäd meaning "heights" or töpü meaning "peak, height, summit"... [more]

Tiyunisiyawa ටියුනීසියාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Tunisia.

Turkiya තුර්කිය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Turkey.

Turkiya තුර්කිය (Country) Arabic, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Quechua, Sinhalese, Tagalog, Tajik, Uzbek
Form of Turkey used in various languages. It can also be an alternate transcription of Arabic تركيا (see Turkiyya).

Tuwalu ටුවාලු (Country) Chinese, Polish, Sinhalese, Thai, Turkmen
Chinese, Sinhala, Thai and Turkmen form of Tuvalu as well as a Polish variant.

Ugandawa උගන්ඩාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Uganda.

Uruguwayi උරුගුවායි (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Uruguay.

Usbekistanaya උස්බෙකිස්තානය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Uzbekistan.

Wenisiyulawa වෙනිසියුලාව (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Venezuela.

Wiyatnamaya වියට්නාමය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Vietnam.

Yemanaya යේමනය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Yemen.

Yukrenaya යුක්රේනය (Country) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Ukraine.

Yuropaya යුරෝපය (Region) Sinhalese
Sinhala form of Europa (see Europe).