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Postal codes in Sri Lanka. Postal codes in Sri Lanka are five digit numbers used by Sri Lanka Postal Service, that identifies each postal jurisdiction to sort mail more efficiently. They were first introduced in 1997. [1]
NNNNN-NNNN for home delivery. A complete 13-digit code has 5-digit number representing region, sector, city, and zone; 4-digit X between 2000 and 5999; 4-digit Y between 6000 and 9999. [ 22] Digits of 5-digit code may represent postal region, sector, branch, section, and block respectively. [ 23] Senegal.
In 1995 a Divisional Council was created for Biyagama which had previously been governed by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka. [8] In 1997 Moratuwa and Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte Urban Councils were promoted to Municipal Councils. [8] As of 199 there were 309 local authorities (14 MC, 37 UC, 258 DC). All parts of Sri Lanka are governed by ...
The Department of Posts, functioning under the brand name Sri Lanka Post ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා තැපැල් Shri Lanka Tæpæl ), is a government operated postal system in Sri Lanka. The postal headquarters is the General Post Office which is located in Colombo. The department itself comes under the purview of the ...
Colombo District was part of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Kotte. The district then came under Portuguese, Dutch and British control. In 1815 the British gained control of the entire island of Ceylon. They divided the island into three ethnic based administrative structures: Low Country Sinhalese, Kandyan Sinhalese and Tamil.
Sri Lanka has 25 districts organized into 9 provinces. [ 1] Districts are further divided into a number of divisional secretariats (commonly known as D.S. divisions), which are in turn subdivided into 14,022 grama niladhari divisions. [ 2] There are 331 DS divisions in Sri Lanka. [ 3]
History. The country was first divided into several administrative units during the Anuradhapura Kingdom. The kingdom was divided into three provinces; Rajarata, Ruhuna and Malaya Rata. These were further subdivided into smaller units called rata. [ 1] Over time, the number of provinces increased, but the second-level administrative division ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The following is a list of settlements in Sri Lanka with a population over 50,000. Cities. City Image ...