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Matara

city in Southern, Sri Lanka
City City Q13360574

Facts

7 properties

Identity

Instance of
city

Location

Country
Sri Lanka[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 5.950°, 80.533°[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Southern Province[2]

Population and size

Elevation above sea level
+2[7]
Population
+68244[5]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 68,244 GeoNames 76,254 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +1
Capital of
Matara District[6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Matara ar ماتارا el Ματάρα hi मतारा ja マータラ ko 마타라 ru Матара th มาตาระ zh 馬塔拉 zh 馬特勒 zh-hant 馬塔拉 (斯里蘭卡)
🔖 Identifiers · 20
VIAF cluster ID
123257613
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n88088551
GND ID
4321527-0
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
M7 811 pulling an express train into Matara Station.jpg ↗
Curlie ID
Regional/Asia/Sri_Lanka/Southern/Matara/
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--5493
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Matara
Freebase ID
/m/0bl81f
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2228033
GeoNames ID
1235846
J9U entity ID
987007564796005171
OpenStreetMap node ID
3639539242
Show all 20 identifiers +8
OpenWeatherMap city ID
1235846
Quora topic ID
Matara-Sri-Lanka
SNARC ID
Esslingen District
Topic's main category
Category:Matara, Sri Lanka
UN/LOCODE
LKMTA
WOEID
2189735
Who's on First ID
1141906987
Yale LUX ID
place/6058d03c-76e2-4912-836b-427f245d7fb8
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Located in time zoneP421
Asia/Colombo 2026-09-26 P/PPL · LK GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
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CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
People born here 13
Sanath Jayasuriya, Mangala Samaraweera, Kasun Rajitha, Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Suranga Lakmal, Ruchira Palliyaguruge, Suraj Randiv, Desmond de Silva +5 more
Contained subdivisions 2
Matara Fort, Matara Star Fort
Capital of 1
Matara District
Country 1
Sri Lanka
Instance of 1
city
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Southern Province
Located in this place 1
University of Ruhuna
Located in time zone 1
UTC+05:30
SNARC ID 1
Esslingen District
Topic's main category 1
Category:Matara, Sri Lanka
← Capital 1
Matara District
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Matara, Sri Lanka
← Terminus location 1
AH43
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Summary

Matara is a city[1].

Related Entities

city Sri Lanka University of Ruhuna

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GND ID → 4321527-0
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #56529: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 15w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → M7 811 pulling an express train into Matara Station.jpg
    WOEID → 2189735
    Coordinate location → 5.950°, 80.533°
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Matara, Sri Lanka
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #43894: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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