Katunayake
Sign in to saveKatunayake (, ), is a suburb of Negombo in Western Province, Sri Lanka. It is the site of Bandaranaike International Airport, the primary international air gateway to Sri Lanka. With the change of government in 1977 and the introduction of the open economy policy a large area was allocated to create a free trade zone (currently known as the Export Promotion Zone).
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The entry is geolocated on the map in LK, across 3 mapped points.
Vinony's link graph records 170 inbound references to Katunayake, and connects out to Sri Lanka, time zone and Tamil.
It is catalogued under topics including Populated places in Western Province, Sri Lanka and Suburbs of Colombo.
Vinony links it to 17 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Katunayake
- Region
- Western Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Population
- 84,643
- Timezone
- Asia/Colombo
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Katunayake
- Settlement.native_name
- කටුනායකகட்டுநாயக்கா
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Sri Lanka
- Settlement.settlement_type
- town
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Western Province
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2012
- Settlement.timezone
- SLST
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +05:30
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Located in
- Western Province
- Elevation
- 24
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Government and infrastructure
- Economy
- Transport
- References
- Works cited
- Books
- Journals
- External links
Katunayake (, ), is a suburb of Negombo in Western Province, Sri Lanka. It is the site of Bandaranaike International Airport, the primary international air gateway to Sri Lanka. With the change of government in 1977 and the introduction of the open economy policy a large area was allocated to create a free trade zone (currently known as the Export Promotion Zone).
==Government and infrastructure== Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka has its head office in Katunayake.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Katunayake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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