This article is about the district in Sri Lanka. For the town, see Batticaloa.
Location of Batticaloa District
Batticaloa District is a district in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. It's capital is in Batticaloa, and the total area is 2,463 km². Situated on the east coast of Sri Lanka, the district was hit hard by the tsunami caused by Indian Ocean earthquake in 2004, which caused 3,177 dead or missing persons and affected 255,000 people in in the district.[1] Batticaloa District. ... Below the provinces Sri Lanka is divided into 25 administrative districts. ... Eastern Province is a province of Sri Lanka. ... Batticaloa District. ... For other uses, see Tsunami (disambiguation). ... The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake,[1] was a great undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC (07:58:53 local time) December 26, 2004 with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. ...
Coordinates: 7°45′N81°30′E / 7.75, 81.5 Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
Batticaloa (මඩකළපුව in Sinhala, மட்டக்களப்பு in Tamil) was the provincial capital of the eastern province of Sri Lanka.
Batticaloa is on the east coast, 314 Km from Colombo.
Batticaloa is the primary focus of attention of Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, better known as Karuna Amman, a former LTTE commander who broke away from the main organization in 2004 and currently operates his own political and military group, the Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal which is strongly opposed to the "Tamil Tiger" LTTE.
Batticaloa (மட்டக்களப்பு in Tamil) was the provincial capital of the eastern province of Sri Lanka, but now both northern and eastern provinces have merged and Trincomalee has been declared as the provincial capital of the north-east province.
BatticaloaDistrict is divided into two sections by a lagoon.
Batticaloa is the primary focus of attention of Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, better known as Karuna Amman, a former LTTE commander who broke away from the main organization in 2004 and currently operates his own political and military group, the Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal, or People's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (TMVP).
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