🇱🇰 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 |
| Northern Province | LK-4 | 450 | 1,149,240 |
| Southern Province | LK-3 | 273 | 2,605,506 |
| Western Province | LK-1 | 161 | 5,821,710 |
| Eastern Province | LK-5 | 54 | 1,551,381 |
| Uva Province | LK-8 | 34 | 1,266,463 |
| North Western Province | LK-6 | 29 | 2,578,894 |
| Sabaragamuwa Province | LK-9 | 29 | 2,015,039 |
| North Central Province | LK-7 | 11 | 1,406,890 |
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.