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Gampaha District is located in the west of Sri Lanka and has an area of 1,387 square kilometres (536 sq mi). [1] It is bounded by Kurunegala and Puttalam districts from north, Kegalle District from east, Colombo District from south and by the Indian Ocean from west. [4]
The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Gampaha in the Western province. The district currently elects 19 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 1,785,964 registered electors in 2020. [2] The district is Sri Lanka's Electorate Number 02. [3]
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Gampaha (Sinhala: ගම්පහ [ˈɡamːpaha]; Tamil: கம்பஹா ) is an urban city in Gampaha District, Western Province, Sri Lanka. It is situated to the north-east of the capital Colombo .
The Gampaha Polling Division has a Buddhist majority (87.6%) and a significant Roman Catholic population (10.7%) . In comparison, the Gampaha Electoral District (which contains the Gampaha Polling Division) has a Buddhist majority (71.3%) and a significant Roman Catholic population (19.5%) [1]
In 1955, the district replaced the province as the country's main administrative unit. [10] Ampara District was created in April 1961, [11] [12] followed by the creation of Mullaitivu and Gampaha districts in September 1978 [13] through a new constitution, which also reintroduced the province as the main administrative unit. [14]
Divisional Secretariats of Gampaha District (3 C, 13 P) L. Landforms of Gampaha District (1 C) P. Populated places in Gampaha District (5 C, 30 P)