Velanai
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Located in
- Jaffna District
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
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Velanai (; ) is a small village on Velanai Island, off the coast of the Jaffna Peninsula in the north of Sri Lanka.
The majority of the population are— Hindu along with a minority of Christians. There are a number of Hindu temples along with churches and schools. Sir Vaithilingam Duraiswamy, a member of parliament during the British colonial period, and his son Yogendra Duraiswamy, a Sri Lankan diplomat, were born in Velanai.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Velanai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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