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Moratuwa
City in Western Province, Sri Lanka

Moratuwa

Moratuwa is a large municipality on the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka, near Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia.

It is situated on the Galle–Colombo main highway, 18 km (11 mi) south of the centre of Colombo. Moratuwa is surrounded on three sides by water, except in the north of the city, by the Indian Ocean on the west, the Lake Bolgoda on the east and the Moratu river on the south. According to the 2012 census, the suburb had a population of 168,280.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Torbenbrinker (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.