Northern Province
Facts
18 properties- Instance of
- province of Sri Lanka
- Inception
- October 1, 1833[14]
- Official website
- www.np.gov.lk[16]
- Website
- www.np.gov.lk
- Located in
- Sri Lanka
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 9.750°, 80.033°[15]
- Area
- 8884.0
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 9.750°, 80.033°
- Head of government
- C. V. Vigneswaran[6]
- Head of state
- Suren Raghavan (2019–present)[7]
- Located in or next to body of water
- Palk Strait, Bay of Bengal[4][5]
- Population
- 1,149,240
- Postal code
- 40000–45999[13]
- Shares border with
- North Western Province, North Central Province, Eastern Province[9][10][11]
- VIAF cluster ID
- 161027663
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n2010207517
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sunset Over Lagoon2.jpg ↗
- Curlie ID
- Regional/Asia/Sri_Lanka/Northern/
- Freebase ID
- /m/072_wj
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- 11058711
- GeoNames ID
- 7671049
- ISO 3166-2 code
- LK-4
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 3237344
- Topic's main category
- Category:Northern Province, Sri Lanka
- Yale LUX ID
- place/2431cfbc-1861-40cf-812b-2e9ec25be18d
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Contained subdivisions 16
Located in this place 3
Shares border with 3
← Shares border with 3
Located in or next to body of water 2
Capital 1
Country 1
Flag 1
Head of government 1
Instance of 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Topic's main category 1
← Applies to jurisdiction 1
← Capital of 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
← FactGrid item ID 1
← Main subject 1
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Summary
Northern Province is a province of Sri Lanka[1].
Body
Geography
Adjacent water bodies include Palk Strait[4], a strait[17], in Sri Lanka[18] and Bay of Bengal[5], a body of water[19], in India[20].
Physical Characteristics
Northern Province's area is recorded as 8884 km²[21]. Its population is recorded as {'amount': '+1149240'}[22].
high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.
served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold
evidence “The project is expected to strengthen maritime relations between India and Northern Sri Lanka, improve port infrastructure in the Northern Province and contribute to increased regional economic activity.” dailymirror.lk · read source