What is the population of Ambalangoda, Southern?

Ambalangoda has a population of approximately 21,500 according to the latest available open data.

Where is Ambalangoda, Southern located?

Ambalangoda is located in Southern, Sri Lanka, at approximate coordinates 6.2389°, 80.0541°.

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Ambalangoda

Total population

21,500

Elevation10 m

Coordinates6.24°, 80.05°

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Elevation

10 m

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Overview

Ambalangoda is a coastal town in Galle District, Southern Province of Sri Lanka. The town is famous for the hand crafting of traditional demon masks and its devil dancers.

History & geography

History

Owing to the abundance of cinnamon in its hinterlands, Ambalangoda was the site of a Dutch East India Company outpost in the 18th century. Consisting of a resthouse (now demolished) and a court building on a small bluff overlooking the beach, it served as the residence for the local Dutch magistrate and dignitaries traveling to Galle and Colombo. British Military Governor Frederick North is reported to have spent a night at the rest house during his tour around Ceylon in 1803. Simon Casie Chitty, in his Ceylon Gazetteer in 1833, gives the following account. In his travel guide: Book of Ceylon in 1907, Henry William Cave describes Ambalangoda as "a pleasant seaside place where good accommodation and excellent food can be obtained, and where the rare luxury of bathing in the open sea can be enjoyed in perfect security". The rest house, said to have been a comfortable hostelry consisting of eight bedrooms, was razed by an act of a local politician in 2009. The courthouse survives to date. Cave also noted in his 1910 book, The Ceylon Government Railway, that Ambalangoda and the surrounding hamlets had a population of 25,000.