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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Place details
- Locality
- Katunayake
- Region
- Western Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Population
- 84,643
- Timezone
- Asia/Colombo
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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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Located in
- Western Province
- Elevation
- 24
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Government and infrastructure
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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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