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Administrative District in Western, Sri Lanka

Colombo District

Colombo District is one of the 25 districts of Sri Lanka, the second level administrative division of the country.

Colombo District
Colombo District · Thilina Alagiyawanna (CC0)
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Colombo District is one of the 25 districts of Sri Lanka, the second level administrative division of the country. The district is administered by a District Secretariat headed by a District Secretary appointed by the central government of Sri Lanka. The capital of the district is the city of Colombo. The district of Colombo was officially recorded in 2016 as having the highest income on average, per household. There are smaller places like Kottawa

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Getting to Colombo District

Airports
Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 15 km · Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 38 km
  • Jaffna → Colombo District
    314 km · quickest by air, 4h 11m · Rs15,410–23,890
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Colombo District
    375 km · quickest by air, 4h 44m · ₹8,760–13,570
  • Tiruchirappalli → Colombo District
    461 km · quickest by air, 5h 6m · ₹9,740–15,070
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Colombo District

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Colombo District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    EllaLK

    7 ways of moving, 30 sources

    114 km
  2. 02
    GaviIN

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    425 km
  3. 03
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    429 km
  4. 04
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    471 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    478 km

If you know how people move in Colombo District – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Colombo District

Colombo District is 20 km from Colombo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Homagamasuburb in Colombo District, Western Province, Sri Lanka3 km
  • Oruwalasuburb in Colombo District, Western Province, Sri Lanka3.5 km
  • Rukmalesuburb in Western Province, Sri Lanka3.6 km