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Colombo is a busy and vibrant city with a mixture of modern life, colonial buildings and monuments. [9] It was made the capital of the island when Sri Lanka was ceded to the British Empire in 1815, [10] and its status as capital was retained when the nation became independent in 1948.
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Colombo is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka, and is home to many of the national governmental institutions. Known as a busy and vibrant city, it is nonetheless restricted by the political turbulence that has continued since independence.
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Colombo is a busy and vibrant city with a mixture of modern life, colonial buildings and monuments. Colombo is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, the Colombo metropolitan area has a population of 5.6 million, and 752,993 in the Municipality.
Colombo ( Sinhala: කොළඹ, Tamil: கொழும்பு) is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka, and still perceived by many as the capital though the suburb of Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is now the official capital. Just like another typical South Asian big city, Colombo is congested, noisy, busy, and vibrant with a ...
Colombo ( Sinhala: කොළඹ; Tamil: கொழும்பு) is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is the city which is economically most important to the country. It has 642,163 people. It is on the west coast close to the capital city of Kotte . The name Colombo is borrowed from Sinhala language name Kola-amba-thota which means "harbor with leafy mango trees".
