Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte

Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is the capital city of Sri Lanka. In practice, it is a suburb of Colombo, which completely surrounds it. Over 100,000 people live in Kotte itself.
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  • Type: City with 116,000 residents
  • Description: administrative capital of Sri Lanka
  • Also known as: “Kotte”, “New Capital Territory”, “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”, “Sri Jayewardanepura”, “Sri Jayewardanepura Kotte”, and “Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ananda Sastralaya, Kotte and Gateway College, Sri Lanka.

School
Ananda Sastralaya is a public boys school located in Kotte, Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1890 as Kotte Buddhist English Mixed School. In 1952 a part of the school land was designated by the Government as an archaeological site since an underground residence of a Buddhist place of worship was discovered at the site.

School
The Gateway Group is an educational conglomerate in . Established in 1986 by R. I. T. Alles, former State Secretary of Education and Sri Lankan educator, the Gateway Group's subsidiaries include international schools, graduate education, and professional training throughout the country and abroad.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Battaramulla and Pelawatte.

Town
Photo: Randeepa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an Urban Area under the administration of Kaduwela and is situated 8.4 km from the , near the Parliament of Sri Lanka. It is one of the fastest developing administrative, commercial and residential areas in the , being home to the country's elite.

Town
also spelled Pelawatta is a part of main town which is a suburb of located near to the new Parliament of Sri Lanka. It is one of the overpopulated areas in the city.

Suburb
is a part of the 's administrative capital of Sri Jayawardenapura. A fairly large suburb bordering , lies between and Ethul Kotte, straddling Parliament Road.

Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte

Latitude
6.8883° or 6° 53′ 18″ north
Longitude
79.9187° or 79° 55′ 8″ east
Population
116,000
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
IATA airport code
DWO
United Nations Location Code
LK SRJ
Open location code
6JRXVWQ9+8F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3275779630
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1238992
Wiki­data ID
Q41963
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Afrikaans: “Sri Jayavardhanapura”
  • Afrikaans: “Sri Jayawardenapura”
  • Afrikaans: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Afrikaans: “Sri Jayawardenepura”
  • Albanian: “Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte”
  • Amharic: “ሽሪ ጃየዋርደነፑራ ኮቴ”
  • Arabic: “سري جاياواردنابورا كوتي”
  • Armenian: “Շրի Ջայավարդենեպուրա Կոտտե”
  • Assamese: “শ্ৰী জয়াবৰ্ধনেপুৰা কট্টে”
  • Asturian: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Avaric: “Шри-Джаяварденепура-Котте”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şri Cayavardenepura Kotte”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şri Jayavardenapura Kotte”
  • Balinese: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Basque: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Basque: “Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte”
  • Belarusian: “Шри Джаяварданапура Коте”
  • Belarusian: “Шры-Джаявардэнепура-Котэ”
  • Belarusian: “Шры-Джаявардэнэпура-Катэ”
  • Bengali: “শ্রী জয়বর্ধনপুর কোট্টে”
  • Bosnian: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Breton: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Bulgarian: “Коте”
  • Bulgarian: “Шри Джайеварденапура Коте”
  • Bulgarian: “Шри Джаяварданапура Коте”
  • Catalan: “Sri Jayawardenapura”
  • Catalan: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Catalan: “Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte”
  • Cebuano: “Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte”
  • Central Bikol: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Central Kurdish: “جایاواردێناپورا کۆتێ سری”
  • Central Kurdish: “سری جایاواردێناپورا کۆتێ”
  • Chechen: “Шри-Джаяварденепура-Котте”
  • Chinese: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Chinese: “斯里賈亞瓦德納普拉科特”
  • Chinese: “斯里贾亚瓦德纳普拉科特”
  • Chinese: “科特”
  • Croatian: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Czech: “Šrí Džajavardanapura Kotte”
  • Czech: “Šrí Džajavardanapura”
  • Czech: “Sri Jayawardenapura”
  • Danish: “Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte”
  • Dutch: “Kotte”
  • Dutch: “Sri Jayawardhenapura Kotte”
  • Dutch: “Sri Jayewardenapura Kotte”
  • Dutch: “Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte”
  • Esperanto: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Estonian: “Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte”
  • Finnish: “Kotte”
  • Finnish: “Sri Jayewardanapura Kotte”
  • Finnish: “Sri Jayewardenepura-Kotte”
  • Finnish: “Sri Jayewardenepura”
  • French: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • French: “Sri Jayawardenapura”
  • French: “Sri Jayewardenapura Kotte”
  • French: “Sri Jayewardenepura-Kotte”
  • Galician: “Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte”
  • Georgian: “შრი-ჯაიავარდენეპურა-კოტე”
  • German: “Jayawardenepura”
  • German: “Sri Jayavardhanapura”
  • German: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • German: “Sri Jayawardenepura”
  • German: “Sri Jayawardhenapura Kotte”
  • German: “Sri Jayawardhenapura”
  • German: “Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte”
  • Greek: “Κολόμπο”
  • Greek: “Κότε”
  • Guarani: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Haitian: “Sri Jayawardenapura”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Hebrew: “סרי ג’איווארדנפורה קוטה”
  • Hebrew: “סרי ג’ייוורדנפורה-קוטה”
  • Hindi: “श्री जयवर्धनापुरा-कोट्टी”
  • Hindi: “श्री जयवर्धनेपुरा कोट”
  • Hindi: “श्री जयवर्धनेपुरा कोट्टी”
  • Hindi: “श्री जयवर्धनेपुरा कोट्टे”
  • Hindi: “श्री जयावर्धने”
  • Hungarian: “Sri Jayawardanapura”
  • Hungarian: “Srí Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Hungarian: “Srí Jayawardenapura”
  • Hungarian: “Sri Jayewardenapura Kotte”
  • Hungarian: “Szrí Dzsajavardhanapura Kótté”
  • Icelandic: “Srí Jajevardenepúra”
  • Ido: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Ido: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Iloko: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Iloko: “Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte”
  • Indonesian: “Kotte”
  • Indonesian: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Indonesian: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Indonesian: “Sri Jayewardenepura”
  • Interlingue: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Irish: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Italian: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Italian: “Sri Jayawardenapura”
  • Italian: “Sri Jayewardanapura Kotte”
  • Italian: “Sri Jayewardanapura-Kotte”
  • Italian: “Sri Jayewardanapura”
  • Japanese: “コッテ”
  • Japanese: “スリ・ジャヤワルダナブラ・コッテ”
  • Japanese: “スリ・ジャヤワルダナプラ・コッテ”
  • Japanese: “スリジャヤワルダナプラコッタ”
  • Japanese: “スリジャヤワルダナプラコッテ”
  • Kannada: “ಶ್ರೀ ಜಯವರ್ದನಪುರ ಕೊಟ್ಟೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಶ್ರೀ ಜಯವರ್ದೆನಪುರ ಕೊಟ್ಟೆ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Shri-Djayavardenepura-Kotte”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Shri-Jayavardenepura-Kotte”
  • Kazakh: “Шри-Джаяварденепура-Котте”
  • Khmer: “ស្រីជ័យវធ៌នបុរ⁠កូត្តេ”
  • Kirghiz: “Шри-Джаяварденепура-Котте”
  • Kirghiz: “Шри-Жаяварденепура-Котте”
  • Korean: “스리자야와드나프라”
  • Korean: “스리자야와르다나푸라”
  • Korean: “스리자야와르데네푸라”
  • Korean: “스리자야와르데네푸라코테”
  • Korean: “코테”
  • Latin: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Latvian: “Kote”
  • Latvian: “Šri Džajavardanapūra Kote”
  • Latvian: “Šri Džajavardanapūra”
  • Ligurian: “Sri Jayawardenepura”
  • Lithuanian: “Kotė”
  • Lithuanian: “Šri Džajavardenapura”
  • Lithuanian: “Šri Džajavardenepura Kotė”
  • Lithuanian: “Šri Džajavardenepura”
  • Livvi: “Šri-Džajavardenepura-Kotte”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sri Jayawardenepura”
  • Macedonian: “Шри Џајаварденапура Коте”
  • Maithili: “श्री जयवर्देनापुरा कोट्टे”
  • Malay: “Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte”
  • Malayalam: “ശ്രീ ജയവർദനെപുരെ കോട്ടെ”
  • Marathi: “जयवर्धनेपुरा कोट”
  • Marathi: “श्री जयवर्धनापुरा”
  • Marathi: “श्री जयवर्धनापूरा”
  • Marathi: “श्री जयवर्धनेपुरा कोट”
  • Marathi: “श्री जयवर्धनेपुरा”
  • Mazanderani: “سری جایاواردنپورا کوته”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Mingrelian: “შრი-ჯაიავარდენეპურა-კოტე”
  • Mongolian: “Шри-Жаяварденепура-Котте”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سري جاياواردنپورا كوتي”
  • Nepali: “श्री जयवर्दनेपुरा कोटे”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sri Jayawardenepura”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sri Jayewardanapura Kotte”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kotte”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sri Jayawardanapuram Kotte”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sri Jayewardanapura Kotte”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sri Jayewardanapura”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sri Jayewardanapuram”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “கோட்டே”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “ஸ்ரீ ஜயவர்த்தனபுரம்”
  • Norwegian: “Kotte”
  • Norwegian: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sri Jayawardenepura”
  • Oriya: “ଶ୍ରୀ ଜୟବର୍ଧନେପୁର କୋଟେ”
  • Ossetian: “Шри-Джаяварденепура-Котте”
  • Panjabi: “ਸ੍ਰੀ ਜੈਵਰਦਨਪੁਰਾ ਕੋਟੇ”
  • Persian: “سری جایاواردنپورا کوته”
  • Persian: “سری جایوردنه پورا کوته”
  • Persian: “سری جایوردنه‌پورا کوته”
  • Persian: “کوته”
  • Polish: “Kotte”
  • Polish: “Sri Dźajawardanapura Kotte”
  • Polish: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Polish: “Sri Jayewardenepura”
  • Portuguese: “Cote”
  • Portuguese: “Kotte”
  • Portuguese: “Seri Jaiavardenapura-Cota”
  • Portuguese: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Portuguese: “Sri Jayawardenapura”
  • Portuguese: “Sri jayewardenepura kotte”
  • Portuguese: “Sri Jayewardenepura-Kotte”
  • Portuguese: “Sri Jaywardenepura”
  • Romanian: “Sri Jayewardanapura Kotte”
  • Russian: “Котте”
  • Russian: “Столица Шри-Ланки”
  • Russian: “Шри-Джаяварденапура”
  • Russian: “Шри-Джаяварденепура-Котте”
  • Sardinian: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Scots: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sri Jayawardenapura”
  • Serbian: “Сри Џајаварденепура Коте”
  • Serbian: “Сри Џајаварденепура-Коте”
  • Serbian: “Шри Џајаварденепура Коте”
  • Serbian: “Шри Џајаварденепура-Коте”
  • Serbian: “Шри Џјаварднепура-Коте”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Šri Džajavardenepura Kote”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Sindhi: “سري جاياوردني پورا ڪوٽي”
  • Sinhala: “කෝට්ටේ”
  • Sinhala: “ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ”
  • Slovak: “Kotte”
  • Slovak: “Sri Jayawardenepura-Kotte”
  • Slovenian: “Šri Džajavardenapura Kote”
  • Spanish: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Spanish: “Sri Jayewardenapura Kotte”
  • Swahili: “Sri Jayawardenapura”
  • Swedish: “Jayavardhanapura Kotte”
  • Swedish: “Jayavardhanapura”
  • Swedish: “Sri Jaya Vardhana Pura Kotte”
  • Swedish: “Sri Jayavardhanapura”
  • Swedish: “Sri Jayawardanapura”
  • Swedish: “Sri Jayawardenapura”
  • Swedish: “Sri Jayawardenepura”
  • Swedish: “Sri Jayewardanapura Kotte”
  • Swedish: “Sri Jayewardenapura-Kotte”
  • Swedish: “Sri Jayewardenapura”
  • Swedish: “Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte”
  • Swedish: “Sri Jayewardenepura”
  • Tajik: “Шри-Ҷаяварденепура-Котте”
  • Tamil: “கோட்டே”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்ரீ ஜயவர்தனபுர கோட்டை”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்ரீ ஜயவர்தனபுர”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்ரீ ஜயவர்த்தனபுரக் கோட்டை”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்ரீ ஜெயவர்தனபுர கோட்டை”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்ரீ ஜெயவர்த்தனபுர”
  • Telugu: “శ్రీ జయవర్దెనెపుర కోట్టె”
  • Telugu: “శ్రీ జయవర్ధనేపుర కొట్టే”
  • Thai: “โกตเต”
  • Thai: “ศรีชยวรรธนปุระโกฏเฏ”
  • Turkish: “Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte”
  • Udmurt: “Шри-Джаяварденепура-Котте”
  • Ukrainian: “Котте”
  • Ukrainian: “Шрі-Джаваярденапура-Котте”
  • Ukrainian: “Шрі-Джаяварданапура”
  • Ukrainian: “Шрі-Джаяварденепура-Котте”
  • Urdu: “سری جے وردھنے پورا کوٹے”
  • Urdu: “سری لنکا کا دارالحکومت”
  • Venetian: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Veps: “Šri Džajavardenepur”
  • Veps: “Šri Džajavardenepura Kotte”
  • Vietnamese: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Welsh: “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • Welsh: “Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • Western Frisian: “Sry Jayewardenapura Kotte”
  • Western Panjabi: “سری جے وردھنے پورا کوٹے”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯里贾亚瓦德纳普拉科特”
  • Yoruba: “Kotte”
  • Yoruba: “Sri Jayawardenapura”
  • Yue Chinese: “科特”
  • Zulu: “i-Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte”
  • “Kotte”
  • “Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte”
  • “Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte”

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