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Colombo
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Ceety
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Clockwise frae tap left: BOC Tower, Colombo Skyline, Colombo Skyline (Gangaramaya Temple), Colombo Skyline (Galle Face), Auld Parliament, Colombo Skyline (Gangaramaya Temple), BOC Tower an
WTC Twin Tower
, Independence Square,
WTC Twin Tower
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Map o Sri Lanka showin the location o Colombo.
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Coordinates:
6°56′04″N
79°50′34″E
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6.93444°N 79.84278°E
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6.93444; 79.84278
Coordinates
:
6°56′04″N
79°50′34″E
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6.93444°N 79.84278°E
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6.93444; 79.84278
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Kintra
| Sri Lanka
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Province
| Wastren Province
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Destrict
| Colombo Destrict
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Govrenment
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? Municipal Cooncil
| Colombo Municipal Cooncil
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? Heidquairters
| Toun Haw
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Mayor
| A. J. M. Muzammil
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Area
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? Ceety
| 37.31 km
2
(14.4 sq mi)
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Population
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? Ceety
| 752,993
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? Density
| 17344/km
2
(44,920/sq mi)
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Metro
| 5.6 million
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Time zone
| UTC+05:30
(
Sri Lanka Staundart Time Zone
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Website
| www.cmc.lk
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Colombo
(
Sinhala
:
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, pronooncit
[?kol?mb?]
;
Tamil
:
????????
) is the lairgest ceety an umwhile caipital o
Sri Lanka
. It is locatit on the wast coast o the island an adjacent tae
Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte
, the caipital. Colombo is a busy an vibrant ceety wi a mixture o modren life an colonial biggins an ruins,
[2]
wi a ceety population o 752,993.
[1]
The Colombo Metropolitan Region, defined bi the destricts o
Colombo
,
Gampaha
an
Kalutara
, haes an estimatit population o 5,648,000, an covers an aurie o 3,694.20 km².
[3]
[4]
Due tae its lairge
harbour
an its strategic position alang the
East-Wast
sea
trade routes
, Colombo wis kent tae auncient traders 2,000 years ago. Housomeivver it wis anerlie made the caipital o the island when Sri Lanka wis cedit tae the
Breetish Empire
in 1815,
[5]
an its status as caipital wis retained when the naition became
independent
in 1948. In 1978, when admeenistrative functions wur moved tae
Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte
, Colombo wis designatit as the commercial caipital o Sri Lanka.
Like mony ceeties, Colombo's urban aurie extends well ayont the bundaries o a single local authority, encompassin ither
Municipal
an Urban Cooncils. The main ceety is hame tae a majority o Sri Lanka's corporate offices, restaurants an entertainment venues.
[6]
Famous landmarks in Colombo include the
Galle Face Green
, the
Viharamahadevi Pairk
as well as the Naitional Museum.
The name "Colombo", first introducit bi the Portuguese in 1505, is believed tae be derived frae the clessical
Sinhalese
name ?????? ???
Kolon thota
, meanin "port on the river
Kelani
".
[7]
It haes an aw been suggestit that the name mey be derived frae the Sinhalese name ???-????-???
Kola-amba-thota
which means "Harbour wi leafy mango trees".
[6]
Housomeivver, it is an aw possible that the Portuguese named the ceety efter
Christopher Columbus
, the Italian sailor who lived in Portugal for mony years afore discoverin the Americas on behauf o the Spainyie monarchs
Ferdinand II o Aragon
an
Isabella I o Castile
. His Portuguese name is Cristovao Colombo. Colombo set sail wastwards tae leuk for Indie aroond the same time Portuguese sailor
Vasco da Gama
set sail eastwards, landin at the Port o
Calicut
in Indie on 20 Mey 1498. Colombo landit in the Americas sax years afore that on 12 October 1492 an wis awready a famed sailor an splorer, celebratit baith in Portugal an Spain bi the time Dom
Lourenco de Almeida
accidentally landit in the port o
Galle
in 1505.
[8]
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