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Batticaloa

Administration
Full nameBatticaloa
Native nameமட்டக்களப்பு
Settlement typeCity
CountrySri Lanka
ProvinceEastern
DistrictBatticaloa
DS DivisionManmunai North
Government
TypeMunicipal Council
MayorSivageetha Prabhakaran
Geography
Total Area1101.6 sq mi (2854 km2)
Land Area1007.5 sq mi (2610 km2)
Water Area94.2 sq mi (244 km2)
Demography
Total Population95489 (2001)
Density (pop.)186/km2 (481.7/sq mi)
DemonymBatticaloan
Other information
Time zoneSri Lanka Standard Time Zone (UTC-5)

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Batticaloa ( , ) is a city in the Eastern province of Sri Lanka. It is the seat of the Eastern University of Sri Lanka. It is on the east coast, 69 mi (111 km) south by south east of Trincomalee, and is situated on an island.

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This is a song by the Batticaloa Dutch Burgher community who speak Creole language. Today, only a few members of the community can speak the Portuguese Creol...
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SLA soldiers, para military attack local Tamil traders in Batticaloa - TamilNet Tweet this news
TamilNet--Special Task Force (STF) personnel stopped all vehicles going through -Batticaloa- to Kalmunai at Kaluthawalai for checking. Road blocks were placed last week along (A5 ) -Batticaloa--Baddula highway, (A4) -Batticaloa--Colombo highway and (A 15) - Date : Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:40:18 GMT+00:00
Batticaloa towns filled with New Year shoppers - Ceylon Daily News Tweet this news
Ceylon Daily News--Major towns in -Batticaloa- district are teeming with thousands of people flocking to shops and other stores to purchase their needs for the New Year. The weekly fairs held at Kaluwanchikudi, Kiran, and Kokkadicholai were patronised by - Date : Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:36:40 GMT+00:00
Railways, Mobitel launch second phase of “mTicketing” - Sunday Times.lk Tweet this news
Sunday Times.lk--The new service extends intercity travelling to Vavuniya and -Batticaloa- through its advanced reservation system, and plans are already underway to extend the service to Omanthei as well in the very near future. All Mobitel customers can - Date : Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:10:49 GMT+00:00
Reactivate those leagues - Sunday Times.lk Tweet this news
Sunday Times.lk--Kandy, Badulla,Trincomalee, Ratnapura, Jaffna, Galle, Bandarawela, Kurunagalle,Gampola, Nawalapitiya,and -Batticaloa- were strongholds of the game and offered the elite of Colombo a good run whenever they met on the field.Inter-league com - Date : Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:10:19 GMT+00:00
Reformulating Kooththu theatre for Eezham Tamils - TamilNet Tweet this news
TamilNet--In the last more than one decade he successfully did it in some of the villages in -Batticaloa-. The present book in Tamil is a collection of eight articles on his views and experiments on the Kooththu of Eezham Tamils, dealing with topics on na - Date : Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:12:47 GMT+00:00
Security for resettling Tamils in Batticaloa's border villages abysmal - TamilNet Tweet this news
TamilNet--28 Tamils, most of them family men with many children, have been reported disappeared since 2008 in -Batticaloa's- border villages with the Sinhala districts, human rights activists in -Batticaloa- say. Tamil women who have lost their husba - Date : Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:50:22 GMT+00:00
Pillayan's driver arrested for assaulting SL policeman - TamilNet Tweet this news
TamilNet--Sri Lankan Police in -Batticaloa- arrested Tuesday the driver of the Eastern Provincial Chief Minister's vehicle on a complaint that the driver and his group had assaulted an SL Police Constable who was on duty at the -Batticaloa- Teaching - Date : Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:12:28 GMT+00:00
'SL forces want Emergency extended for colonizing East' - TamilNet Tweet this news
TamilNet--Tamil National Alliance MP for -Batticaloa-, Pakiaselvam Ariyanethiran, Tuesday night told media that Sri Lankan forces were staging search operations in the three districts of Eastern Province to justify Colombo's “need” to extend the - Date : Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:18:38 GMT+00:00
Trainee PHIs want a bigger allowance - Daily Mirror Tweet this news
Daily Mirror--A protest campaign by some 200 trainee public health inspectors from Kalutara, Galle, Kadugannawa, Kurunegala, -Batticaloa- and Jaffna was held near the Eye Hospital Junction yesterday. The trainee health inspectors said 248 of them ... - Date : Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:55:55 GMT+00:00
EP Chief Minister's driver arrested - Daily Mirror Tweet this news
Daily Mirror--Chief Minister's driver and some of his supporters is said to have allegedly entered the Accident Ward of the -Batticaloa- Teaching Hospital, assaulted a police constable and had threatened the nurses with death. A police officer said t - Date : Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:02:18 GMT+00:00

Municipalities and Urban councils of Sri Lanka

MunicipalitiesAnuradhapura * Badulla * Batticaloa * Colombo * Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia * Galle * Gampaha * Jaffna * Kalmunai * Kandy * Kurunegala * Matale * Matara * Moratuwa * Negombo * Nuwara Eliya * Ratnapura * Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte
Urban councilsAmbalangoda * Ampara * Balangoda * Bandarawela * Beruwala * Boralesgamuwa * Chavakacheri * Chilaw * Embilipitiya * Gampola * Hambantota * Haputale * Hatton-Dickoya * Hikkaduwa * Horana * Ja-Ela * Kadugannawa * Kalutara * Kattankudy * Katunayake-Seeduwa * Kegalle * Kesbewa * Kinniya * Kolonnawa * Kuliyapitiya * Maharagama * Minuwangoda * Nawalapitiya * Panadura * Peliyagoda * Point Pedro * Puttalam * Seethawakapura * Talawakele-Lindula * Tangalle * Trincomalee * Valvettithurai * Vavuniya * Wattala-Mabola * Wattegama * Weligama

Cities in Sri Lanka

CapitalsColombo (commercial) * Sri Jayawardenapura (national)
Other citiesAnuradhapura * Trincomalee * Jaffna * Kandy * Polonnaruwa * Galle * Batticaloa * Boralesgamuwa * Nuwara Eliya * Negombo * Kurunegala * Badulla * Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia * Moratuwa * Matara * Maharagama * Ratnapura



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