Place:Northern, Sri Lanka

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NameNorthern
Alt namesNorthernsource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 612
TypeProvince
Coordinates9.5°N 79.7°E
Located inSri Lanka
Contained Places
District
Jaffna
Kilinochchi
Mannar
Mullaitivu
Inhabited place
Point Pedro
Talaimannar
Vavuniya
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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The Northern Province ( Vaṭa Mākāṇam; Uturu Paḷāta) 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. Between 1988 and 2006 the province was temporarily merged with the Eastern Province to form the North Eastern Province. The capital of the province is Jaffna. The majority of the Sri Lankan Civil War was played out in this province.

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