🦖 National Museum of Natural History, Colombo

Sri Lanka · Asia · 6.91°N, 79.86°E

Quick facts

Country	Sri Lanka
Continent / region	Asia
Coordinates (approx.)	6.91°N, 79.86°E · view on map
Distance to the equator	769 km north of it
Solar time	UTC+5:15 — read from longitude, so it is the sky's clock rather than the government's
Sun today (UTC)	Rises 00:29, sets 12:20 — 11 h 51 min of daylight

National Museum of Natural History, Colombo is located in Sri Lanka, in Asia.

Closest natural history museums

Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Natural History Museum — 2,278 km away, in Thailand
Chulalongkorn University Museum of Natural History — 2,383 km away, in Thailand
National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi — 2,430 km away, in India
Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh — 2,670 km away, in India
Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum — 2,723 km away, in Singapore

Straight-line distances on a sphere, computed from the coordinates. A road would be longer.

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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