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Kottawa

Kottawa is one of the main suburbs in Colombo, Sri Lanka and is administered by the Maharagama Urban Council.

Kottawa
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The place

Kottawa is one of the main suburbs in Colombo, Sri Lanka and is administered by the Maharagama Urban Council. It is located 21 km (13 mi) from the centre of Colombo. It is a five-way junction and lies as the epicenter for Maharagama road, Homagama road, Piliyandala road, Malabe road and Borella road.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Kottawa

Airports
Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 9 km · Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 39 km
  • Jaffna → Kottawa
    314 km · quickest by air, 4h 21m · Rs15,880–24,620
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Kottawa
    379 km · quickest by air, 4h 54m · ₹9,230–14,300
  • Tiruchirappalli → Kottawa
    463 km · quickest by air, 5h 16m · ₹10,210–15,800
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kottawa

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 Kottawa. 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

    120 km
  2. 02
    GaviIN

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    423 km
  3. 03
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    427 km
  4. 04
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    469 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    476 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kottawa

Kottawa is 17 km from Colombo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.