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Chilaw

large town in Puttalam district, Sri Lanka
Place human_settlement Q2495639

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
human settlement
Country
Sri Lanka[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 7.579°, 79.792°[4]
Elevation above sea level
+3[5]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Puttalam District[2]
🏷️ Also known as
en Chilaw ar تْشيلو el Τσιλόου fa چیلاو hi चिलाव it Chillaw ja チラウ ko 칠라오 ru Чилав th ชิลอว์ uk Чілав zh 奇洛
🔖 Identifiers · 12
VIAF cluster ID
154888818
Library of Congress authority ID
n89100457
GND ID
4405784-2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
ChilawUhrturm.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/049xzk
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2214723
GeoNames ID
1249145
NL CR AUT ID
ge798830
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007564891705171
Quora topic ID
Chilaw
Topic's main category
Category:Chilaw
Who's on First ID
890450147

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24,712 2026-09-26 P/PPL · LK GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
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CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Asia/Colombo 2026-09-26 P/PPL · LK GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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🔗 Connections
People born here 2
Shaminda Eranga, Claude Corea
Country 1
Sri Lanka
Instance of 1
human settlement
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Puttalam District
Located in time zone 1
UTC+05:30
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Summary

Chilaw is a human settlement[1].

Related Entities

Sri Lanka

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_chilaw_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Chilaw}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/chilaw}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-01}}
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'ca', 'ceb', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'ja', 'nl', 'pl', 'si', 'sv', 'ta',
    GND ID → 4405784-2
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 15w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 7.578888888888889, 'lon': 79.79222222222222}
    Instance of → —
    Coordinates → —
    Aliases → —
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43101|batch #43101]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level (Q486972) [LKA]"
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