Key facts
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Created
- 1 October 1833
- Provincial council
- 14 November 1987
- Capital
- Jaffna
- Largest city
- Vavuniya
- Districts
- List Jaffna Kilinochchi Mannar Mullaitivu Vavuniya
- Type
- Provincial council
- Body
- Northern Provincial Council
- Governor
- Nagalingam Vedanayagam
- Mps
- List Selvam Adaikalanathan Silvestri Alantine Sivasakthy Ananthan Risad Badhiutheen Murugesu Chandrakumar Douglas Devananda Hunais Farook Muthali Bawa Farook Vijayakala Maheswaran Vino Noharathalingam Suresh Premachandran E. Saravanapavan Mavai Senathirajah S. Sritharan A. Vinayagamoorthy
- Total
- 8,884 km (3,430 sq mi)
- Land
- 8,290 km (3,200 sq mi)
- Rank
- 3rd (13.54% of total area)
- Density
- 139/km (359/sq mi)
- Sri lankan tamil
- 1,052,752 (91.53%)
- Sri lankan moors
- 57,706 (5.02%)
- Sinhalese
- 35,542 (3.09%)
- Indian tamil
- 3,634 (0.32%)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Sri Lanka
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Located in
- Sri Lanka
- Capital
- Jaffna
- Population
- 1149240
- Area
- 8884
- Body of water
- Bay of Bengal
- Head of government
- C. V. Vigneswaran
- Shares border with
- Eastern Province
- Official website
- www.np.gov.lk
- Image
- Sunset Over Lagoon2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Northern Province, Sri Lanka
- topic's main category
- Category:Northern Province, Sri Lanka
- postal code
- 40000–45999
- inception
- 1833-10-01
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Encyclopedic overview
The Northern Province (Tamil: வட மாகாணம் Vaṭa Mākāṇam; Sinhala: උතුරු පළාත Uturu Paḷāta) is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka. The province has an area of 8,884 km, making it the 3rd largest province by area, and a population of 1,150,148 making it the least populated province. Jaffna is the capital city of the province.
Between 1988 and 2006, the province was temporarily merged with the Eastern Province into one province, the North Eastern Province. Due to its large Tamil population, the Northern Province is sometimes referred to as "Sri Lanka's Tamil country". The majority of the fighting in the Sri Lankan Civil War took place in the Northern province.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Northern Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.