🇱🇰 Sri Lanka 9 administrative divisions
9 first-level administrative divisions (states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country) and 2,422 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- LK · LKA · 144
- Capital
- Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
- Continent
- Asia
- Currency
- LKR, Sri Lankan rupee
- Calling code
- +94
- Internet domain
- .lk
- Divisions
- 9
- Cities and towns
- 2,422
Divisions
The 9 divisions of Sri Lanka
9 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Province | LK-2 | 1,337 | 2,712,804 |
| Eastern Province | LK-5 | 54 | 1,551,381 |
| North Central Province | LK-7 | 11 | 1,406,890 |
| North Western Province | LK-6 | 29 | 2,578,894 |
| Northern Province | LK-4 | 450 | 1,149,240 |
| Sabaragamuwa Province | LK-9 | 29 | 2,015,039 |
| Southern Province | LK-3 | 273 | 2,605,506 |
| Uva Province | LK-8 | 34 | 1,266,463 |
| Western Province | LK-1 | 161 | 5,821,710 |
A further 44 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of Sri Lanka
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/LK.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/LK/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.