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2. Climate change in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   Climate change in Sri Lanka. Visualisation of average annual temperature anomaly in Sri Lanka, 1901 to 2020. Climate change is an important issue in Sri Lanka, and its effects threaten to impact both human and natural systems. Roughly 50 percent of its 22 million citizens live in low-lying coastal areas in the west, south, and south-west of the ...

3. Geography of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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   Geography of Sri Lanka. 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 980 square kilometres (380 sq ...

4. Kalpitiya - Wikipedia

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   517.4/km 2 (1,340/sq mi) Time zone. UTC+05:30 (Sri Lanka Standard Time Zone) Kalpitiya (Sinhala: කල්පිටිය, romanized: Kalpiṭiya, Tamil: கற்பிட்டி, romanized: Kaṟpiṭṭi) is a coastal town located in western region of Puttalam District. The Kalpitiya peninsula consists of a total fourteen islands. It is ...

5. Nuwara Eliya - Wikipedia

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   The city is the administrative capital of Nuwara Eliya District, with a picturesque landscape and temperate climate. It is at an altitude of 1,868 m (6,128 ft) and is considered to be the most important location for tea production in Sri Lanka. The city is overlooked by Pidurutalagala, the tallest mountain in Sri Lanka. Nuwara Eliya is known ...

6. 2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods - Wikipedia

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   22. 2018 Sri Lanka floods and landslides caused from an annual heavy southwest monsoon beginning around 19 May. As of 26 May 2018; the monsoon floods affected in about 19 districts, killed at least 21 people, about 150, 000 people were affected and further left approximately 23 people missing. [1][2][3][4][5] The death casualties were reported ...

7. Cyclone Thane - Wikipedia

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   Cyclone Thane. Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Thane was the strongest tropical cyclone of 2011 within the Bay of Bengal. Thane initially developed as a tropical disturbance within the monsoon trough to the west of Indonesia. Over the next couple of days the disturbance gradually developed further while moving towards the northwest, and was declared ...

8. Gampaha - Wikipedia

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   Gampaha. Gampaha (Sinhala: ගම්පහ [ˈɡamːpaha]; Tamil: கம்பஹா [kambahaː]) is an urban city in Gampaha District, Western Province, Sri Lanka. It is situated to the north-east of the capital Colombo. It is the sixth largest urban area in Western Province, after Colombo, Negombo, Kalutara, Panadura and Avissawella. [2]

9. Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia - Wikipedia

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   Website. dmmc.lk. Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia (Sinhala: දෙහිවල-ගල්කිස්ස, romanized: Dehivala-Galkissa; Tamil: தெஹிவளை-கல்கிசை, romanized: Tehivaḷai-Kalkicai), population 245,974 (2012), [2] is a large municipality in Sri Lanka, covering 2,109 ha (5,210 acres). It lies south of the Colombo ...