Nawala

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Nawala

Elevation18 m

Coordinates6.90°, 79.89°

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

Overview

Nawala is an up-market residential suburb of Colombo, within the Kotte municipality in the western province of Sri Lanka, and is approximately 6 km south of Colombo City.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Tony Hoare

British computer scientist

David Wilkie

British swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder

Lakshman Kadirgamar

Sri Lankan politician (1932-2005)

Chandrika Kumaratunga

President of Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2005

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Beverley Craven

British singer-songwriter

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A. S. A. Sami

Indian film director, screenwriter and author

Chitral Somapala

musician, singer

Michael Ondaatje

Canadian novelist and poet (born 1943)

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

4th Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from 1956-59

Nirj Deva

British politician (born 1948)

Oswald Gomis

Catholic archbishop (1932–2023)

Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala

British Indian Army officer (1810-1890)

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Achini Nimeshika Ratnasiri

badminton player

Shyam Selvadurai

Canadian writer

Ananda Coomaraswamy

Sri Lankan Tamil metaphysician (1877–1947)

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Kasun Jayasuriya

Sri Lankan footballer

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

Nearby places in Western

• Nugegoda
  1.8 mi away · pop. 15,000
• Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte
  2 mi away · pop. 115,826
• Delkanda
  2.3 mi away · pop. 15,000
• Salamulla
  2.3 mi away
• Malwatte
  2.5 mi away
• Pelawatte
  2.6 mi away · pop. 15,000
• Kajugahawatte
  2.6 mi away
• Aggona
  2.7 mi away · pop. 5,000
• Wellampitiya
  2.9 mi away · pop. 10,000
• Divulpitiya
  3 mi away · pop. 5,000
• Maligawatte
  3 mi away · pop. 15,000
• Kotikawatte
  3.3 mi away · pop. 5,000

Browse all places in Western →

Geography & sun

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

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.