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Puttalam

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

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
human settlement
Country
Sri Lanka[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 8.034°, 79.835°[4]
Capital of
Puttalam District[5]
Elevation above sea level
+8[6]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Puttalam District[2]
🏷️ Also known as
en Puttalam ar بوتالام el Πούταλαμ fa پوتالام hi पुट्टलम ja プッタラム ko 푸탈람 pt Putalão ru Путталам th ปัตตาลัม zh 普塔勒姆 zh-hans 普塔拉
🔖 Identifiers · 13
VIAF cluster ID
155928019
Library of Congress authority ID
n79090989
GND ID
4405795-7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Sri Lanka, Puttalam street scene (5).jpg ↗
Curlie ID
Regional/Asia/Sri_Lanka/North-Western/Puttalam/
Freebase ID
/m/07n_0q
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2234590
GeoNames ID
1229293
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1066472
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007550348905171
Topic's main category
Category:Puttalam
WOEID
2185993
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Who's on First ID
421203931

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PopulationP1082
45,661 2026-09-26 P/PPL · LK GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
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.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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Located in time zoneP421
Asia/Colombo 2026-09-26 P/PPL · LK GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
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.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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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.
🔗 Connections
Capital of 1
Puttalam District
Country 1
Sri Lanka
Instance of 1
human settlement
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Puttalam District
Located in this place 1
Lakvijaya Power Station
Located in time zone 1
UTC+05:30
← Capital 1
Puttalam District
← Shares border with 1
Madurankuli
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Summary

Puttalam is a human settlement[1].

Related Entities

Sri Lanka

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. 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. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'ca', 'ceb', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko',
    GND ID → 4405795-7
    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': 8.0341666666667, 'lon': 79.835277777778}
    Instance of → —
    Coordinates → —
    Aliases → —
    + 8 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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