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The morphological structure of Sri Lankan place names by and large depends on the language. Sinhala and Tamil favour transparent compounds involving geological features combined with an animal or plant, while the European languages are more person centered and derive place names from saints or nobility or army.
The name Pahanthuda is derived from the Sinhala word “pahana” for lamp. It is located approximately 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) from Belihuloya. Bambarakanda Ella (also known as Bambarakele Ella) - The highest waterfall in Sri Lanka, it is 263 m (863 ft) in height and ranks as the 299th highest waterfall in the world. [ 3 ]
Elgin Falls. This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been given to parts of Sri Lanka by Scottish planters.Almost without exception Scottish place names in Sri Lanka occur either in the Hill Country plantations or in Colombo.
More than 90% of Sri Lanka's surface lies on Precambrian strata, some of it dating back 2 billion years. [6] The granulite facies rocks of the Highland Series (gneisses, sillimanite-graphite gneisses, quartzite, marbles, and some charnockites) make up most of the island and the amphibolite facies gneisses, granites, and granitic gneisses of the Vijayan Series occur in the eastern and ...
South Asia has a total area of 5.2 million sq.km (2 million sq.mi), which is 10% of the Asian continent. [47] The population of South Asia is estimated to be 2.04 billion [ 18 ] or about one-fourth of the world's population, making it both the most populous and the most densely populated geographical region in the world.
Provinces (Sinhala: පළාත, romanized: Paḷāta; Tamil: மாகாணம், romanized: Mākāṇam) are the first level administrative divisions of Sri Lanka. Currently, Sri Lanka is divided into 9 provinces. Each province is further divided into districts, which are further divided into divisional secretariats.
Physical and mental health are tied to social connectedness. Loneliness and isolation can have impacts that reach far beyond the more obvious domains of personal mood and happiness—everything ...
Jaffna is known in Tamil as Yalpanam and earlier known as Yalpanapattinam.A 15th-century inscription of the Vijayanagara Empire mentions the place as Yalpaanayanpaddinam. [citation needed] The name also occurs on copper plates issued by Sethupathi kings of the same era. [4]