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Colombo
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Colombo

Largest city and de facto capital of Sri Lanka

Citycitybig citylargest cityQ35381
Country
Located in
Population
Area
  • 37.3M m²
Elevation
  • 1 m
Postal code
  • 00000–09999
Website

Overview

All data

132 statements · 17% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Twinned administrative body
Capital of
Located in or next to body of water
Local dialing code
  • 011
Part of
Significant event
Native label
  • කොළඹ transliteration or transcription: Koḷam̆ba
  • كٗۻُمْبُ
Official name
  • කොළඹ
Different from
Demonym
Economy of topic
Related category
Present in work
Member of
Official language

On other databases

80 identifiers linking Colombo across the web's reference databases