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Key facts
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Created
- 1 October 1833
- Provincial council
- 14 November 1987
- Capital
- Trincomalee
- Largest city
- Kalmunai
- Cities towns
- List * Batticaloa * Ampara * Kattankudy * Eravur * Akkaraipattu * Pottuvil * Sammanthurai
- Districts
- List Ampara Batticaloa Trincomalee
- Type
- Provincial council
- Body
- Eastern Provincial Council
- Governor
- Jayantha Lal Ratnasekera
- Total
- 9,996 km (3,859 sq mi)
- Land
- 9,361 km (3,614 sq mi)
- Water
- 635 km (245 sq mi) 6.35%
- Rank
- 2nd (15.24% of total area)
- Density
- 190.5/km (493.4/sq mi)
- Sri lankan tamil
- 678,549 (38.05%)
- Sri lankan moors
- 703,561 (39.45%)
- Sinhalese
- 392,114 (21.99%)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Eastern Province (Sinhala: නැගෙනහිර පළාත Næ̆gĕnahira Paḷāta, Tamil: கிழக்கு மாகாணம் Kiḻakku Mākāṇam) is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of the country. The provinces have existed since the 19th century but did not have any legal status until 1987 when the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka established provincial councils. Between 1988 and 2006 the province was temporarily merged with the Northern Province to form the North Eastern Province. The capital of the province is Trincomalee. Kalmunai is the largest and most populous city of Eastern Province.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eastern Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.