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It was made the capital of the island when Sri Lanka was ceded to the British Empire in 1815, [10] retaining its capital status when Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948. In 1978, when administrative functions were moved to Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Colombo was designated as the commercial capital of Sri Lanka.
The current legislative capital of Sri Lanka is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte and the executive and judicial capital is Colombo. Over the course of the island's history, the national capital has been in several locations other than [1] Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte. [1]
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, commonly known as Kotte (pronounced [ˈkoːʈeː]), [1] is the legislative capital of Sri Lanka. [2] Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is located adjacent to the urban area of Sri Lanka's de facto economic, executive, and judicial capital, Colombo. The Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte Municipal Council area is bounded in:
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital of Sri Lanka and the largest city, Colombo is the administrative and judicial capital which is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Kandy is the second-largest urban area and also the capital of the last native kingdom of Sri Lanka.
Map of Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (1557–1565) The Kingdom of Kotte (Sinhala: කෝට්ටේ රාජධානිය, romanized: Kōttē Rajadhaniya, Tamil: கோட்டை அரசு), named after its capital, Kotte, was a Sinhalese kingdom that flourished in Sri Lanka during the 15th century.
On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated Islamic terrorist suicide bombings. A total of 267 people were killed, [ 71 ] [ 72 ] including at least 45 foreign nationals, [ 73 ] three police officers, and eight bombers, and at ...
The district is administered by a District Secretariat headed by a District Secretary (previously known as a Government Agent) appointed by the central government of Sri Lanka. The capital of the district is the city of Colombo. The district of Colombo was officially recorded in 2016 as having the highest income on average, per household. [4]
Rajagiriya is a part of the Sri Lanka's administrative capital of Sri Jayawardenapura. A fairly large suburb bordering Colombo , Rajagiriya lies between Borella and Ethul Kotte, straddling Parliament Road.