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Bentota Estuary. Bentota is a coastal town in Sri Lanka, located in the Galle District of the Southern Province. It is approximately 65 kilometres (40 mi) south of Colombo and 56 kilometres (35 mi) north of Galle. Bentota is situated on the southern bank of the Bentota River mouth, at an elevation of 3 metres (9.8 ft) above the sea level.
Cinnamon Bentota Beach, formerly known as Bentota Beach Hotel, is a luxury five-star hotel in Bentota, Sri Lanka. The hotel was built in 1967 and designed by Geoffrey Bawa. After refurbishment, the hotel reopened in 2019. The hotel is owned and operated by a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings under its luxury hotel chain, Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts.
The coast of Europe is heavily indented with bays and gulfs, as here in Greece. Europe's most significant geological feature is the dichotomy between the highlands and mountains of Southern Europe and a vast, partially underwater, northern plain ranging from Great Britain in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east.
The Balkan Peninsula is located in Southeastern Europe and the following countries and territories occupy land within the Balkans either exclusively or partially: Albania , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia (approximately the southern half), Greece , Kosovo , Montenegro , North Macedonia , Romania (the Dobrudja region), Serbia ...
Total area including these is 302,068 km2. [7] [8] ^ Constituent countries have area 130,267 km2 ( England ), 13,511 km2 ( Northern Ireland ), 78,286 km2 ( Scotland) and 20,700 km2 ( Wales ). [9] ^ European portion is about 5% of total area, with the rest in Central Asia. Nine districts are entirely in Europe, but the Ural river runs through ...
Other major Baltic islands: Aestian Island (artificial island in the Vistula Lagoon) (Poland) Åland (territory under Finnish sovereignty) Beryozovye Islands (located in the Gulf of Finland) (Russia) Fehmarn (Germany) Hailuoto (Finland) Rügen (Germany) Usedom /Uznam (Germany and Poland) Wolin (Poland)
Lunuganga, exterior of Bawa's house. The Lunuganga Estate was the country house of the renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. [1] [2] The estate had been used as a cinnamon estate during the Dutch era and then a rubber plantation under the British. In 1948, the small house in the estate was given on rent to the local tax collector.
North Macedonia ( / ˌmæsɪˈdoʊniə / MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə ), [c] officially the Republic of North Macedonia, [d] is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo [e] to the northwest and Serbia to the north. [7]