Puttalam

large town in North Western Province, Sri Lanka
Place human_settlement Q3088741
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Puttalam

Summary

Puttalam is a human settlement[1]. Puttalam ranks in the top 0.91% of human_settlement entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (39 views/month, #326 of 35,923).[2]

Key Facts

  • Puttalam is located in Puttalam District[3].
  • Puttalam is in the country of Sri Lanka[4].
  • Puttalam's image is recorded as Sri Lanka, Puttalam street scene (5).jpg[5].
  • Puttalam's instance of is recorded as human settlement[6].
  • Puttalam's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 155928019[7].
  • Puttalam's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n79090989[8].
  • Puttalam's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+05:30[9].
  • Puttalam's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q5885 (tam)-Sriveenkat-புத்தளம்.wav[10].
  • Puttalam's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 8.0341666666667, 'lon': 79.835277777778}[11].
  • Puttalam's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07n_0q[12].
  • Puttalam's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Puttalam[13].
  • Puttalam's page banner is recorded as SL Puttalam asv2020-01 BANNER.jpg[14].
  • Puttalam's Curlie ID is recorded as Regional/Asia/Sri_Lanka/North-Western/Puttalam/[15].
  • Puttalam's WOEID is recorded as 2185993[16].
  • Puttalam's capital of is recorded as Puttalam District[17].
  • Puttalam's GeoNames ID is recorded as 1229293[18].
  • Puttalam's Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID is recorded as 1066472[19].
  • Puttalam's elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+8'}[20].
  • Puttalam's GNS Unique Feature ID is recorded as -2234590[21].
  • Puttalam's Who's on First ID is recorded as 421203931[22].
  • Puttalam's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007550348905171[23].

Body

Geography

Puttalam is in the country of Sri Lanka[4]. Puttalam is located in Puttalam District[3].

Physical Characteristics

Puttalam's elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+8'}[20].

Designation and Status

Puttalam's instance of is recorded as human settlement[6].

Why It Matters

Puttalam ranks in the top 0.91% of human_settlement entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (39 views/month, #326 of 35,923).[2] Puttalam has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca. Retrieved . discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 2.0. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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