Jaffna

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Jaffna

Total population

600,000

Coordinates9.67°, 80.01°

Demographic figures from Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Jaffna is the capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. It is the administrative headquarters of the Jaffna District located on a peninsula of the same name. With a population of 88,138 in 2012, Jaffna is Sri Lanka's 12th most populous city. Jaffna is approximately ten kilometres from Kandarodai which served as an emporium in the Jaffna peninsula from classical antiquity. Jaffna's suburb Nallur served as the capital of the four-century-long medieval Tamil Jaffna Kingdom.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

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Shanmugalingam Sivashankar

Sri Lankan LTTE terrorist

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A. Amirthalingam

Sri Lankan politician (1927-1989)

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Appadurai Muttulingam

Indian writer

Arumuka Navalar

Sri Lankan Shaivism and Tamil language scholar, reformer, revivalist (1822–1879)

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A. M. A. Azeez

educator (1911–1973)

Cankili I

King of Jaffna

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Joseph Pararajasingham

Sri Lankan politician

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K. S. Arulnandhy

Ceylonese teacher

Kumaraswamy Pulavar

Sri Lankan revivalist

M. A. Sumanthiran

Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician

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M. Nallathambi

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Perinpanayagam Sivaparan

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam member

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S. Arasaratnam

Academic, historian and author

S. K. Lawton

Sri Lankan photographer

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Sathasivam Kanagaratnam

Sri Lankan Tamil politician

Thomas T. Minor

American mayor (1844–1889)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Jaffna

Search results from Open Library.