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Population. The Eastern province's population was 1,551,381 in 2012. [2] The province is the most diverse in Sri Lanka, both ethnically and religiously. The population of the province, like that of the Northern Province, was heavily affected by the civil war. The war killed an estimated 100,000 people. [26]
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 ...
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 4 July 2017: 3 January 2019: 4 M. L. A. M. Hizbullah: United People's Freedom Alliance: 3 January 2019 3 June 2019 5 Shan Wijayalal De Silva: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 5 June 2019 20 November 2019 6 Anuradha Yahampath: Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna: 4 December 2019 15 May 2023 7 Senthil Thondaman: Ceylon Workers' Congress ...
Batticaloa is the terminus of a Broad gauge branch railway of the Sri Lanka Railways network. The Batticaloa railway station is the last station on Batticaloa Line. Batticaloa Airport is a military air force base, which has domestic air service to civilian as well by Cinnamon Air and Helitours. Bus service is available to major cities of Sri Lanka.
The following is a list of schools in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. [1] St. Michael's College National School. ... Trincomalee Sinhala Central College, Trincomalee ...
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]
Sri Lankan place name etymology. Sri Lankan place name etymology is characterized by the linguistic and ethnic diversity of the island of Sri Lanka through the ages and the position of the country in the centre of ancient and medieval sea trade routes. While typical Sri Lankan placenames of Sinhalese origin vastly dominate, toponyms which stem ...
Kalmunai is situated on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east. Kalmunai MC covers an area of 2,740.08 ha (6,770.9 acres) (Data Source _ Survey Department). [5] To the north of Kalmunai lies the village of Periyaneelavanai, which serves as the border between Ampara and Batticaloa Districts.