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Jaffna Palk Strait is a strait between the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and Northern Province of Sri Lanka. It connects the Palk Bay in the Bay of Bengal in the north with the Gulf of Mannar in the Laccadive sea in the south.
English: Map showing locations of Pakistan and Bangladesh. Date: 2 August 2011 (original upload date) Source: ... Closer map: 08:06, 7 February 2013: 940 × 415 (1.75 MB)
It runs roughly 3,655 km (2,271 mi) [2] from Teknaf, Bangladesh on the border with Myanmar [4] [5] west to Kabul, Afghanistan, passing through Chittagong and Dhaka in Bangladesh, Kolkata, Kanpur, Agra, Aligarh, Delhi, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Prayagraj in India, and Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Peshawar in Pakistan.
Elephant Pass (Tamil: ஆனையிறவு, romanized: Āṉaiyiṟavu; Sinhala: අලිමංකඩ, romanized: Alimankada) [1] is located at the gateway of the Jaffna Peninsula in Northern Province, Sri Lanka. It lies about 340 km north of the capital. It has an important military base and used to be the island's largest salt field.
Jaffna is approximately ten kilometres (six miles) from Kandarodai which served as an emporium in the Jaffna peninsula from classical antiquity. Jaffna's suburb Nallur served as the capital of the four-century-long medieval Tamil Jaffna Kingdom. [2] Prior to the Sri Lankan Civil War, it was Sri Lanka's second most populous city after Colombo ...
Before the construction of the expressway, the two-lane road here was known as the Dhaka Bypass Road. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] According to varying reports from The Daily Star , construction of the road began either in 1997, November 2001, or January 2002, with an estimated cost of ৳ 283 crore (US$23 million) to ৳ 317 crore (US$26 million), [ 4 ] [ 5 ...