Kokkuvil

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

Overview

Kokuvil is a suburb in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

S

Shanmugalingam Sivashankar

Sri Lankan LTTE terrorist

A

A. Amirthalingam

Sri Lankan politician (1927-1989)

A

Appadurai Muttulingam

Indian writer

Arumuka Navalar

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

A

A. M. A. Azeez

educator (1911–1973)

Cankili I

King of Jaffna

J

Joseph Pararajasingham

Sri Lankan politician

K

K. S. Arulnandhy

Ceylonese teacher

Kumaraswamy Pulavar

Sri Lankan revivalist

M. A. Sumanthiran

Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician

M

M. Nallathambi

Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam

Sri Lankan high jumper

N

Niru

Indian composer

P

Perinpanayagam Sivaparan

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam member

S

S. Arasaratnam

Academic, historian and author

S. K. Lawton

Sri Lankan photographer

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.

Recently spotted species

Red Spined Millipede

Xenobolus carnifex

Seen 2026-09-16

Indian Flying Fox

Pteropus medius

Seen 2026-09-16

Indian Garden Lizard

Calotes versicolor

Seen 2026-09-16

Maroon Stone Crab

Menippe rumphii

Seen 2026-08-11

Golden Sandfish

Holothuria scabra

Seen 2026-07-27

Bigfin Reef Squid

Sepioteuthis lessoniana

Seen 2026-07-27

Brahminy Kite

Haliastur indus

Seen 2026-07-27

Domestic Dog

Canis familiaris

Seen 2026-07-24

Black-headed Ibis

Threskiornis melanocephalus

Seen 2026-07-24

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).