Northern Province, Sri Lanka

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province of Sri Lanka

Northern Province, Sri Lanka is the island nation’s northernmost province, centered on the Jaffna Peninsula and known for its Tamil cultural heritage and post-civil war reconstruction.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form Occurrences
Jaffna District 2
Jaffna Peninsula 2
Northern Sri Lanka 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf province of Sri Lanka ⓘ
administrativeLanguage Tamil ⓘ
borderedBy Bay of Bengal ⓘ
Eastern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
North Central Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
North Western Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
Palk Strait ⓘ
capital Jaffna ⓘ
containsDistrict Jaffna ⓘ
surface form: Jaffna District

Kilinochchi District ⓘ
Mannar District ⓘ
Mullaitivu District ⓘ
Vavuniya District ⓘ
country Sri Lanka ⓘ
culturalFeature Hindu temples ⓘ
Tamil language media ⓘ
traditional Tamil festivals ⓘ
demographicImpact significant war-related displacement ⓘ
economySector agriculture ⓘ
fishing ⓘ
small-scale trade ⓘ
ethnicMajority Sri Lankan Tamils ⓘ
governingBody Northern Provincial Council ⓘ
hasCoastlineOn Indian Ocean ⓘ
Palk Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ
headOfGovernmentResidence Jaffna ⓘ
headOfGovernmentTitle Chief Minister of Northern Province ⓘ
historicalRegion Jaffna Kingdom ⓘ
knownFor Tamil cultural heritage ⓘ
post-civil war reconstruction ⓘ
largestCity Jaffna ⓘ
locatedIn northern Sri Lanka ⓘ
locatedOn Jaffna Islands ⓘ
surface form: Jaffna Peninsula
officialLanguage Sinhala ⓘ
Tamil ⓘ
partOf Tamil cultural region of Sri Lanka ⓘ
postWarIssue demining ⓘ
infrastructure reconstruction ⓘ
resettlement of internally displaced persons ⓘ
religionMajority Hinduism ⓘ
religionMinority Christianity ⓘ
Islam ⓘ
significantCity Kilinochchi District ⓘ
surface form: Kilinochchi

Mannar region ⓘ
surface form: Mannar

Mullaitivu ⓘ
Vavuniya District ⓘ
surface form: Vavuniya
timeZone Sri Lanka Standard Time ⓘ
utcOffset +05:30 ⓘ
wasMajorTheatreOf Sri Lankan Civil War ⓘ

Referenced by (21)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jaffna → capitalOf → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
this entity surface form: Jaffna District
Tamil people → concentratedIn → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
Jaffna → locatedIn → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
Jaffna → locatedIn → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
this entity surface form: Jaffna District
Jaffna International Airport → locatedIn → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
Jaffna Lagoon → locatedIn → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
Nainativu Island (nearby pilgrimage site) → locatedIn → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
subject surface form: Nainativu Island
Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil → locatedIn → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
Jaffna Public Library → locatedInAdministrativeTerritory → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
University of Jaffna → locatedInAdministrativeTerritory → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
Jaffna Fort → locatedInRegion → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
Jaffna → locatedOn → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
this entity surface form: Jaffna Peninsula
Sri Lankan Civil War → location → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
Limpopo Province → previousName → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
this entity surface form: Northern Province
Jaffna → provincialCapitalOf → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
Jaffna Tamil → region → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
this entity surface form: Northern Sri Lanka
Swami Rock → region → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
this entity surface form: North-East Sri Lanka
University of Jaffna → regionServed → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
this entity surface form: Northern Sri Lanka
Jaffna International Airport → serves → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
Jaffna Tamil → spokenIn → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
Jaffna → transportHubFor → Northern Province, Sri Lanka ⓘ
this entity surface form: Jaffna Peninsula