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Homagama
Sign in to saveHomagama is a town in the Colombo District, Sri Lanka, about south-east of Colombo. The Homagama Pradeshiya Sabha consists of the Homagama divisional secretariat and 10 GN division of Padukka DS division. The total Land area is about is of 91 GN division. The Pradeshiya Sabha was established under act No 15 of 1987, and has the highest population of any pradeshiya sabha area in Sri Lanka.
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- Locality
- Homagama
- Region
- Western Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Population
- 34,664
- Timezone
- Asia/Colombo
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- human settlement
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Located in
- Colombo District
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Homagama is a town in the Colombo District, Sri Lanka, about south-east of Colombo. The Homagama Pradeshiya Sabha consists of the Homagama divisional secretariat and 10 GN division of Padukka DS division. The total Land area is about is of 91 GN division. The Pradeshiya Sabha was established under act No 15 of 1987, and has the highest population of any pradeshiya sabha area in Sri Lanka.
==Economy== Homagama is home to many research institutes and universities. These include the Technology faculty of University of Colombo, campus of the National School of Business Management (NSBM), Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology and its Nanoscience Park, Centre for Defence Research and Development, Data Centre of Sri Lanka Telecom and the Sri Lanka Institute of Biotechnology as well as the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka.
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