Districts of Sri Lanka

There are 8 provinces in Sri Lanka, Central, North Central, North Eastern, North Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern, Uva and Western.

Population By District

’000 Persons
District	2001(a)	2002	Change	% Change
Colombo Gampaha Kalutara Galle Matara Hambantota Badulla Moneragala Kandy Matale Nuwara Eliya Kegalle Ratnapura Kurunegala Puttalam Anuradhapura Polonnnaruwa Ampara Batticaloa Trincomalee Jaffna Kilinochchi Mannar Mulaitivu Vavuniya	2234 2066 1061 991 761 525 775 396 1273 442 700 780 1008 1452 705 747 359 589 486 340 491 127 152 122 150	2266 2077 1069 1000 770 529 787 401 1288 448 707 784 1020 1461 713 754 363 596 522(b) 358(b) 532(b) 154(b) 98(b) 164(b) 146(b)	32 11 8 10 9 4 12 5 16 6 7 4 12 9 8 8 4 7 36 18 41 27 -54 42 -4	1.4 0.5 0.8 1.0 1.2 0.7 1.6 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.0 0.5 1.2 0.6 1.1 1.0 1.1 1.1 7.3 5.2 8.4 21.0 -35.4 34.8 -2.5
Total	18,732	19,007	275	1.5
(a) Based on Census of Population and Housing - 2001. (b) Statistics for 2002 were obtained by the egistrar General’s Department from the GA of the district. Estimates for other districts were calculated by projecting the Census-2001figures using natural increase in population and net migration statistics in 2002 for each district.

District and Sector	Total no. of persons	Age
		Male	Female
Colombo	2,234,289	1,134,308	1,099,981
Gampaha	2,066,096	1,004,476	1,061,620
Kalutara	1,060,800	540,074	322,764
Kandy	1,272,463	616,630	655,833
Matale	442,427	219,890	222,537
Nuwara Eliya	700,083	344,836	355,247
Galle	990,539	479,485	511,054
Matara	761,236	367,428	393,808
Hambantota	525,370	261,271	264,099
Jaffna	-
Mannar	*
Vavuniya	*
Mullaitivu	-
Kilinochchi	-
Batticaloa	*
Ampara	589,344	295,319	294,025
Trincomalee	*	713,366	739,003
Kurunegala	1,452,369	348,080	357,262
Puttalam	705,342	378,613	367,853
Anuradhapura	746,466	187,130	172,067
Polonnaruwa	359,197	383,067	391,488
Badulla	774,555	200,558	195,615
Moneragala	396,173	508,182	499,982
Ratnapura	1,008,164	379,998	399,776
Kegalle	779,774	8,343,964	8,520,580
Total	16,864,544

District and Sector	Total no. of persons	Age
		Under 18 years	18 years and over
Colombo	2,234,289	606,082	1,628,207
Gampaha	2,066,096	591,847	1,474,249
Kalutara	1,060,800	738,036
Kandy	1,272,463	429,672	842,791
Matale	442,427	150,033	2443,786
Nuwara Eliya	700,083	256,297	443,786
Galle	990,539	334,005	656,534
Matara	761,236	262,473	498,763
Hambantota	525,370	190,843	334,527
Jaffna	-
Mannar	*
Vavuniya	*
Mullaitivu	-
Kilinochchi	-
Batticaloa	*
Ampara	589,344	234,517	354,827
Trincomalee	*	489,409	962,960
Kurunegala	1,452,369	256,640	448,702
Puttalam	705,342	378,613	480,959
Anuradhapura	746,466	265,507	234,474
Polonnaruwa	359,197	124,723	488,193
Badulla	774,555	286,362	240,742
Moneragala	396,173	155,431	662,912
Ratnapura	1,008,164	345,252	399,776
Kegalle	779,774	250,032	8,520,580
Total	16,864,544

Postal Districts

District Code
District	AD
Anuradhapura	APR
Ampara	BC
Batticaloa
Badulla	BD
Colombo	CO
Galle	GL
Gampaha	G
Hambantota	HB
Jaffna	JB
Kegalla	KE
Kurunegala	KG
Kalutara	KT
Kandy	KY
Mannar	MB
Matale	MT
Matara	MH
Monaragala	MJ
Mullativu	MP
Nuwaraeliya	NW
Polonnaruwa	Rp
Puttalam	P
Ratnapura	PX
Trincomalee	TN
Vavuniya	VA

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