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Polonnaruwa

town in North Central Province, Sri Lanka
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Summary

Polonnaruwa is a human settlement[1]. Polonnaruwa ranks in the top 0.53% of human settlement entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,282 views/month, #190 of 35,923).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: North Central Province[3]
  • Country: Sri Lanka[4]
  • Twinned administrative body: Kunming[5]
  • Location: Polonnaruwa District[6], North Central Province[7], Sri Lanka[8]
  • Commons category: Polonnaruwa[9]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+05:30[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Polonnaruwa[11]
  • Commons gallery: Polonnaruwa[12]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13]
  • Capital of: Kingdom of Polonnaruwa[14]
  • Heritage designation: World Heritage Site[15]
  • World Heritage criteria: (i)[16], (iii)[17], (vi)[18]

Why It Matters

Polonnaruwa has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] Polonnaruwa is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Sri Lanka

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wb.km.gov.cn. wb.km.gov.cn. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . whc.unesco.org. whc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . whc.unesco.org. whc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . whc.unesco.org. whc.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → UTC+05:30
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43101|batch #43101]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level (Q486972) [LKA]"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3oMOJ8
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 17w ago · InternetArchiveBot bot · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image needs reharvest → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Polonnaruwa
    Country → Sri Lanka
    Image purged at → —
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|2 */ Twinned administrative body: Kunming, Rescuing 1 sources and submitting 0 for archiving. #IABot (v2.0.9.5)"
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