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Vavuniya

#1255 in World

Sri Lanka

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Population
53K
Coordinates
8.7542, 80.4973
Category
cities

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Vavuniya is a city in Vavuniya District in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. The municipality is administered by a Municipal Council. The town has been known since ancient times, but being a heavily forested area, less than 100,000 people lived in the entire district before the Sri Lankan Civil War. The city is situated as a border town that divides the Tamil and Sinhalese population. To the south of the city are the Sinhalese population, and to the north are the Tamil population.

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