Area > Comparative to US places
slightly larger than West Virginia |
|
View time series
|
Capital city with population
Colombo (official) - 1,994,000; Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (legislative and judicial) - 107,000 |
|
DEFINITION: Capital cities including most recent population (estimates included). Populations are figures only within the city limits, unless otherwise specified. All populations are from 2001 t0 2005 unless otherwise specified. |
|
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
capitals and largest cities > Countries > Cities larger than the capital
Kotte is suburb of Colombo |
|
DEFINITION:
|
|
SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook, City Population, CIA World Factbook, World Gazetteer, Official government websites. |
|
Forested Land
|
30% |
|
[81st of 193]
|
|
DEFINITION: Forested land as a proportion of total land area, estimate by FAO |
|
SOURCE: Wikipedia: List of capitals and largest cities by country
|
|
Geographic coordinates
|
7 00 N, 81 00 E |
|
|
|
DEFINITION: This entry includes rounded latitude and longitude figures for the purpose of finding the approximate geographic center of an entity and is based on the Gazetteer of Conventional Names, Third Edition, August 1988, US Board on Geographic Names and on other sources. |
View time series
|
|
SOURCE: FAO |
|
Largest city
|
Colombo |
|
|
|
DEFINITION: The city with the highest population |
|
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
|
Largest city population
|
645,000 |
|
[107th of 174]
|
|
DEFINITION: The population of the country's largest city |
|
SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook |
|
Largest city with population
|
Colombo - 1,994,000 |
|
|
|
DEFINITION: Largest cities including most recent population (estimates included). Populations are figures only within the city limits, unless otherwise specified. All populations are from 2001 t0 2005 unless otherwise specified. |
|
SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook |
|
northernmost point > Latitude
|
09°30'N |
|
|
|
DEFINITION:
|
|
SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook, City Population, CIA World Factbook, World Gazetteer, Official government websites. |
|
Population density
|
295.72 people per sqkm |
|
[35th of 256]
|
|
DEFINITION: People per square kilometre, in 1999. At this time the world average was 14.42. |
|
SOURCE: Wikipedia: List of countries by northernmost point
|
|
Population density > people per sq. km
|
303.66 people/m²
|
|
[31st of 204]
|
|
DEFINITION: Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes. |
View time series
|
|
SOURCE: Heal The World Foundation. |
|
Rural population density > rural population per sq. km of arable land
|
1,779.43 people/km² of arable lan |
|
[13th of 188]
|
|
DEFINITION: Rural population density is the rural population divided by the arable land area. Rural population is calculated as the difference between the total population and the urban population. Arable land includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded. |
View time series
|
|
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
|
Surface area > sq. km
|
65,610 km²
|
|
[120th of 206]
|
|
DEFINITION: Surface area is a country's total area, including areas under inland bodies of water and some coastal waterways. |
View time series
|
|
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
|
tallest mountains > Mountain
|
Pidurutalagala |
|
|
|
DEFINITION:
|
|
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
del.icio.us
Feeds |
Contact