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Place details
- Locality
- Weliweriya (SP)
- Region
- Southern Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Population
- 76,254
- Timezone
- Asia/Colombo
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Province
- Southern
- District
- Matara
- Type
- Municipal Council
- Mayor
- Ranjith Yasarathna
- Urban
- 13 km (5.0 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 2 m (6.6 ft)
- City
- 74,193
- Density
- 5,841/km (15,130/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Matarites
- Time zone
- [[UTC+5:30 ]] (Sri Lanka Standard Time Zone)
- Postal code
- 81xxx
- Area code
- 041
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Matara Fort: Clocktower, merlons and bartizan Matara (Sinhala: මාතර, romanized: Māthara; Tamil: மாத்தறை) is a major city in Sri Lanka, on the southern coast of Southern Province. It is the second largest city in Southern Province. It is 160 km (99 mi) from Colombo. It is a major commercial hub, the administrative capital and largest city of Matara District.
Ethnic composition in Matara DS Division according to 2012 census data is Sinhalese 111,039 (95.88%), Muslims 4,296 (3.71%), Tamils 326 (0.28%), Others 144 (0.12%).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Matara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.