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City Image DS Division District Province Population Area Density (/km 2) Coordinates; Conurbation (2012 est) Municipality (2012 census) km 2 mi 2; Colombo කොළඹ கொழும்பு: Colombo / Thimbirigasyaya: Colombo: Western: 752,993: 561,314: 37 14: 15,171: Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia
The following is a list of settlements in Sri Lanka with a population between 5,000 and 50,000. Towns. Town Image DS Division District Province Population Area Density
Topographic map of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka, an island in South Asia shaped as a teardrop or a pear/mango, lies on the Indian Plate, a major tectonic plate that was formerly part of the Indo-Australian Plate. It is in the Indian Ocean southwest of the Bay of Bengal, between latitudes 5° and 10° N, and longitudes 79° and 82° E.
Geography of Sri Lanka. / 7°N 81°E / 7; 81. Sri Lanka, formerly called Ceylon, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, southeast of the Indian subcontinent, in a strategic location near major sea lanes. [1] The nation has a total area of 65,610 square kilometres (25,330 sq mi), with 64,630 square kilometres (24,950 sq mi) of land and ...
Sri Lanka has 25 districts organized into 9 provinces. [1] Districts are further divided into a number of divisional secretariats (commonly known as D.S. divisions), which are in turn subdivided into 14,022 grama niladhari divisions. [2] There are 331 DS divisions in Sri Lanka. [3]
Provinces ( Sinhala: පළාත, romanized:Paḷāta; Tamil: மாகாணம், romanized:Mākāṇam) are the first level administrative divisions of Sri Lanka. Currently, Sri Lanka is divided into 9 provinces. Each province is further divided into districts, which are further divided into divisional secretariats . The provinces were ...
The Central Province ( Sinhala: මධ්යම පළාත Madhyama Paḷāta, Tamil: மத்திய மாகாணம் Madhdhiya Mākāṇam) is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka. The province has an area of 5,674 km 2 and a population of 2,421,148, making it the 2nd most populated province. The city of Kandy stands as its ...
Colombo District is located in the south west of Sri Lanka and has an area of 699 square kilometres (270 sq mi). Administrative units. Colombo District is divided into 13 Divisional Secretary's Division (DS Divisions), each headed by a Divisional Secretary (previously known as an Assistant Government Agent).