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

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.
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Getting to Kottawa
- Airports
- Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 9 km · Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 39 km
- Jaffna → Kottawa314 km · quickest by air, 4h 21m · Rs15,880–24,620
- Thiruvananthapuram → Kottawa379 km · quickest by air, 4h 54m · ₹9,230–14,300
- Tiruchirappalli → Kottawa463 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.
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.
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Next door to Kottawa
Kottawa is 17 km from Colombo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Piliyandalasuburb in Colombo District, Western Province, Sri Lanka1.9 km
- PannipitiyaSettlement in Sri Lanka1.9 km
- Arawwalavillage in Sri Lanka3.5 km
- Rukmalesuburb in Western Province, Sri Lanka2.9 km
- Wickramasinhapuratown in the west of Sri Lanka1.9 km