README.md

Base Data for Sri Lanka

Base data for Sri Lanka under a Public Domain CC0 license.

🚧🚧🚧 Under construction—not ready for use. 🚧🚧🚧

Administrative Divisions

Abbreviations used:

• PID - Parent ID points to another object in this dataset
• SID - Sequence ID within sibling objects
• ID - ID unique across all objects in the Administrative Divisions dataset
• EID - External ID the LIFe Location Code is used here, which is unique across Sri Lanka government datasets
• ESID - External Sequence ID within sibling objects: the LIFe Code is used here

LIFe stands for Lanka Interoperability Framework.

Administrative Divisions

• 9 Provinces
• 25 Districts
• 331 DS (Divisional Secretariat) Divisions
• 14,022 GN (Grama Niladhari) Divisions
  • Colombo District 557GNDs, 13DSDs
  • Gampaha District 1177GNDs, 13DSDs
  • Kalutara District 762GNDs, 14DSDs

Electoral Divisions

• Electoral Districts - 22
• Polling Divisions - 160
• Polling Districts - 13,314

Languages

Sinhala and Tamil are the official languages of Sri Lanka while English is the link language.

Sinhala and Tamil languages and scripts share many similarities, including some shared vocabulary, making it fairly easy for a Sinhala speaker to learn Tamil, and vice versa.

🚧🚧🚧 Under construction—many errors and ommissions exist. 🚧🚧🚧

• Sinhala Vowels - 20
• Sinhala Consonants - 40
• Tamil Vowels - 12
• Tamil Consonants - 18
• Tamil All Letters - draft