Western Province, Sri Lanka
The Western Province (Sinhala: බස්නාහිර පළාත Basnahira Palata, Tamil: மேல் மாகாணம் Mael Maakaanam) is the most densely populated province of Sri Lanka. It is home to the legislative capital Sri Jayawardenapura as well to Colombo, the nation's administrative and business center.
The Western Province has an estimated population of 5,648,000 and covers an area of 3,694.20 square kilometres (1,426.34 sq mi), as per the provincial gross domestic product-2010. The western province, which includes the cities of Colombo and its suburbs, Negombo, Kalutara and Gampaha, recorded GDP per capita of USD 3,808, the highest recorded GDP per capita for any region in South Asia.
Read more about Western Province, Sri Lanka: Districts, Major Cities, Cities, Suburbs of Colombo City, Suburbs of Negombo City, Big Towns, Other Towns, Education
Famous quotes containing the word western:
“In everyone’s youthful dreams, philosophy is still vaguely but inseparably, and with singular truth, associated with the East, nor do after years discover its local habitation in the Western world. In comparison with the philosophers of the East, we may say that modern Europe has yet given birth to none.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)