Place:Central, Sri Lanka

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NameCentral
Alt namesCentralsource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 612
TypeProvince
Coordinates7.333°N 80.75°E
Located inSri Lanka
Contained Places
District
Kandy
Matale
Nuwara Eliya
Inhabited place
Gampola
Nawalapitya
Sigiriya
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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The Central Province ( Madhyama Paḷāta, Madhdhiya 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.) The Central Province is primarily in the central mountainous terrain of Sri Lanka. It is the 6th largest province by area and is home to 2.5 million people. It is bordered by North Central Province to the north, Uva Province to the east, North Western Province to the west and Sabaragamuwa Province to the south and west. The province's capital is Kandy.

The cities of Matale and Nuwara Eliya are in the Central Province. The province is famous for its production of Ceylon tea, planted by the British in the 1860s after a devastating disease killed all the coffee plantations in the province. The Central Province attracts many tourists, with hill station towns such as Gampola, Hatton and Nuwara Eliya.

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