Puttalam District
administrative district in North Western Province, Sri Lanka
Facts
12 properties- Instance of
- district of Sri Lanka
- Official website
- www.ds.gov.lk[6]
- Website
- www.ds.gov.lk
- Located in
- North Western Province
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 8.000°, 80.000°[5]
- Area
- 3072.0[8]
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 8.000°, 80.000°
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- North Western Province[2]
🏷️ Also known as
en Puttalam District
ar مديرية بوتالام
de Puttalam
el Πουτταλάμ
es Distrito de Puttalam
fa ناحیه پوتالام
fi Puttalamin piirikunta
hi पुत्तलम जिला
hi पुत्तलाम जिला
id Distrik Puttalam
it Distretto di Puttalam
ja プッタラム県
ko 푸탈람구
pl Dystrykt Puttalam
ru Путталам
th เขตปุตตาลัม
vi Quận Puttalam
zh 普塔勒姆區
zh-hans 普塔勒姆区
🔖 Identifiers · 11
- FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
- CE19
- Freebase ID
- /m/0b9gfv
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -2234591
- GeoNames ID
- 1229292
- INaturalist place ID
- 11091
- ISO 3166-2 code
- LK-62
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 5351779
- Quora topic ID
- Puttalam
- Topic's main category
- Category:Puttalam District
- Who's on First ID
- 85673779
- Yale LUX ID
- place/b5054ea7-0a23-46c0-933d-fa1c1c5ed0e5
⛏️ Lake Facts
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Located in time zoneP421
Asia/Colombo
2026-09-26
A/ADM2 · LK
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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.
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 26
People born here 2
Capital 1
Country 1
Instance of 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Topic's main category 1
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← Category's main topic 1
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Summary
Puttalam District is a district of Sri Lanka[1].