Western Province
Colombo District
Colombo Divisional Secretariat

Colombo

Colombo is the largest city and commercial capital of , and still perceived by many as the capital though the suburb of Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is now the official capital.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Red Mosque and Beira Lake.

Mosque
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Jami-Ul-Alfar Mosque (Sinhala: කොලඹ කොටුව රතු පල්ලිය, romanized: Kolomba Kotuwa Rathu Palliya, Tamil: மஸ்ஜிதுல் ஜாமிஉல் அஃபார் அல்லது சம்மாங்கோடு பள்ளிவாசல், romanized: Sammankodu Pallivasal, is a historic in Colombo, .

Lake
Photo: Mayakaru, CC BY 3.0.
is a man-made in the centre of the city of Colombo in . The lake is surrounded by many large businesses in the city. It initially occupied approximately 1.65 km2 of land 100 years ago but has since been reduced to 0.65 km2 today due to various reasons.

Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a major rail hub in Colombo, . The station is served by Sri Lanka Railways, with many inter-city and commuter trains entering each day.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kotahena and Slave Island.

Suburb
is a suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and is known as Colombo 13.

Village
Photo: Mayakaru, CC BY 3.0.
, officially known as Kompagngna Veediya, also known as Kampong Kertel and Kompanna Veediya and formerly known as Javanam Quarters during Dutch rule, is a suburb in Colombo, , located directly south of the .

Suburb
is a suburb in Colombo, . is also part of an area numbered Colombo 13. The name is of Dutch origin, meaning 'Valley of Flowers'.

Colombo

Latitude
6.9389° or 6° 56′ 20″ north
Longitude
79.8542° or 79° 51′ 15″ east
Population
753,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
CMB
United Nations Location Code
LK CMB
Open location code
6JRXWVQ3+GM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 50794342
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1248991
Wiki­data ID
Q35381
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Colombo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Colombo”
  • Afrikaans: “Kolombo”
  • Albanian: “Kolombo”
  • Amharic: “ኮሎምቦ”
  • Arabic: “كولمبو”
  • Arabic: “كولومبو”
  • Aragonese: “Colombo”
  • Armenian: “Կոլոմբո”
  • Asturian: “Colombo”
  • Asturian: “Colombu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kolombo”
  • Balinese: “Colombo”
  • Bashkir: “Коломбо”
  • Basque: “Kolonbo”
  • Belarusian: “Каломба”
  • Bengali: “কলম্বো”
  • Bengali: “কলোম্বো”
  • Bhojpuri: “कोलंबो”
  • Bhojpuri: “कोलम्बो”
  • Bosnian: “Colombo”
  • Breton: “Colombo”
  • Bulgarian: “Коломбо”
  • Burmese: “ကိုလံဘိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Colombo”
  • Cebuano: “Colombo (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Colombo”
  • Chinese: “Colombo”
  • Chinese: “可倫坡”
  • Chinese: “哥伦坡”
  • Chinese: “哥倫坡”
  • Chinese: “哥林堡”
  • Chinese: “科伦坡/可倫坡/科倫坡/哥伦坡”
  • Chinese: “科伦坡”
  • Chinese: “科倫坡”
  • Chinese: “高朗务”
  • Chinese: “高郎步”
  • Croatian: “Colombo”
  • Czech: “Colombo”
  • Czech: “Kolombo”
  • Danish: “Colombo”
  • Dhivehi: “ކޮޅުނބު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kolombo”
  • Dotyali: “कोलम्बो”
  • Dutch: “Colombo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كولمبو”
  • Esperanto: “Colombo”
  • Esperanto: “Kolombo”
  • Estonian: “Colombo”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Colombo”
  • Finnish: “Colombo”
  • French: “Colombo”
  • Galician: “Colombo”
  • Georgian: “კოლომბო”
  • German: “Colombo”
  • German: “Kolamba”
  • German: “Kolombo”
  • Greek: “Κολόμπο”
  • Guarani: “Kolómbo”
  • Gujarati: “કોલંબો”
  • Haitian: “Kolonbo”
  • Hausa: “Kolombo”
  • Hebrew: “קולומבו”
  • Hindi: “कोलंबो”
  • Hungarian: “Colombo”
  • Icelandic: “Colombo”
  • Icelandic: “Kólombó”
  • Ido: “Colombo”
  • Inari Sami: “Colombo”
  • Indonesian: “Colombo”
  • Indonesian: “Kolombo”
  • Interlingua: “Colombo”
  • Interlingue: “Colombo”
  • Irish: “Colombo”
  • Italian: “Colombo”
  • Japanese: “コロンボ”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Colombo”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಲಂಬೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಲಂಬೋ”
  • Kashmiri: “کولمبو”
  • Kazakh: “Коломбо”
  • Khmer: “កូឡុំបូ”
  • Kirghiz: “Коломбо”
  • Korean: “콜롬보”
  • Lao: “ໂກະລັມບະ”
  • Lao: “ໂຄລົມໂບ”
  • Latin: “Columbum”
  • Latvian: “Kolombo”
  • Ligurian: “Colombo (çitæ)”
  • Ligurian: “Colombo”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolombas”
  • Lombard: “Colombo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Colombo”
  • Macedonian: “Коломбо”
  • Maithili: “कोलम्बो”
  • Malagasy: “Colombo”
  • Malay: “Colombo”
  • Malayalam: “കൊളംബോ”
  • Malayalam: “കൊഴുമ്പ്”
  • Maltese: “Colombo”
  • Maltese: “Kolombo”
  • Marathi: “कोलंबो”
  • Mazanderani: “کلمبو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Colombo”
  • Minangkabau: “Kolombo”
  • Mingrelian: “კოლომბო”
  • Mongolian: “Коломбо”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كولومبو”
  • Nepali: “कोलम्बो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Colombo”
  • Northern Sami: “Colombo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colombo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Colombo”
  • Norwegian: “Colombo”
  • Novial: “Kolombo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Colombo”
  • Oriya: “କଲୋମ୍ବୋ”
  • Ossetian: “Коломбо”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਲੰਬੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Colombo”
  • Persian: “کلمبو”
  • Persian: “کولمبو”
  • Piemontese: “Colombo”
  • Polish: “Kolombo”
  • Portuguese: “Colombo”
  • Portuguese: “Columbo”
  • Portuguese: “Kolamba”
  • Pushto: “کولمبو”
  • Romanian: “Colombo”
  • Russian: “Коломбо”
  • Sanskrit: “कोलम्बो”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱚᱞᱚᱢᱵᱚ”
  • Scots: “Colombo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Colombo”
  • Serbian: “Коломбо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Colombo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kolombo”
  • Shona: “Colombo”
  • Sicilian: “Colombo”
  • Silesian: “Kolůmbo”
  • Sindhi: “ڪولمبو”
  • Sinhala: “කොළඹ”
  • Sinhala: “ෙකාළඹ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Colombo”
  • Slovak: “Kolombo”
  • Slovenian: “Colombo”
  • Slovenian: “Kolombo”
  • Somali: “Kolonbo”
  • Spanish: “Colombo”
  • Swahili: “Colombo”
  • Swedish: “Colombo”
  • Swedish: “Kolombo”
  • Tagalog: “Colombo”
  • Tajik: “Коломбо”
  • Tamil: “கொலோம்போ”
  • Tamil: “கொழும்பு”
  • Telugu: “కొలంబో”
  • Thai: “Colombo”
  • Thai: “กรุงโคลอมโบ”
  • Thai: “กรุงโคลัมโบ”
  • Thai: “โคลอมโบ”
  • Thai: “โคลัมโบ”
  • Tibetan: “ཁོ་ལུམ་པོ་”
  • Tibetan: “ཁོ་ལུམ་པོ།”
  • Turkish: “Colombo”
  • Turkish: “Kolombo”
  • Turkmen: “Kolombo”
  • Udmurt: “Коломбо”
  • Uighur: “كولومبو”
  • Ukrainian: “Коломбо”
  • Urdu: “کلمب”
  • Urdu: “کلمبو”
  • Urdu: “کولمبو”
  • Uzbek: “Kolombo”
  • Venetian: “Colombo”
  • Veps: “Kolombo”
  • Vietnamese: “Colombo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Colombo, Sri Lanka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Colombo”
  • Welsh: “Colombo”
  • Western Frisian: “Kolombo”
  • Wu Chinese: “科伦坡”
  • Yue Chinese: “Colombo”
  • Yue Chinese: “கொழும்பு”
  • Yue Chinese: “කොළඹ”
  • Yue Chinese: “可倫坡”
  • Yue Chinese: “哥林堡”
  • Yue Chinese: “科倫坡”
  • Zulu: “i-Colombo”
  • “Colombo”
  • “Koḷam̆ba”
  • “कोलंबो”

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