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Moratuwa

human settlement
Place human_settlement Q867213

Facts

7 properties
Instance of
human settlement
Country
Sri Lanka[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 6.799°, 79.877°
Described by source
Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[5]
Elevation above sea level
+28[6]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Colombo[2]
Postal code
10400[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Moratuwa ar موراتوا el Μορατούβα hi मोराटुवा ja モラトゥワ ko 모르투와 ru Моратува th โมราตุวา zh 莫勒圖沃 zh-hans 莫勒图沃 zh-hans 莫拉图瓦
🔖 Identifiers · 17
VIAF cluster ID
158393716
Library of Congress authority ID
n89101217
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
MoratuwaBahnhof.jpg ↗
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
moratuwa
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--5493
Freebase ID
/m/08nc2k
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2229249
GeoNames ID
1234633
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
moratuwa
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0044288
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Moratuwa
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2643312
Show all 17 identifiers +5
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007565188905171
Quora topic ID
Moratuwa-Sri-Lanka
SNARC ID
232 BC
Topic's main category
Category:Moratuwa
Who's on First ID
421199791

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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.
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🔗 Connections
People born here 14
Ajantha Mendis, Kusal Mendis, Lahiru Thirimanne, Amal Silva, Duleep Mendis, Angelo Perera, Praveen Jayawickrama, Ruby de Mel +6 more
← Headquarters location 2
Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, Democratic United National Front
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Moratuwa
Contained subdivisions 1
University of Moratuwa
Country 1
Sri Lanka
Instance of 1
human settlement
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Colombo
Located in time zone 1
UTC+05:30
SNARC ID 1
232 BC
Topic's main category 1
Category:Moratuwa
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Moratuwa
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Moratuwa
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Summary

Moratuwa is a human settlement[1].

Related Entities

Colombo Sri Lanka University of Moratuwa

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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.

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. 14w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43101|batch #43101]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level (Q486972) [LKA]"
  2. 15w ago · Dirac · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Elevation above sea level → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+28'}
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Colombo
    Described by source → Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
    Country → Sri Lanka
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Image: MoratuwaBahnhof.jpg, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/261402|batch #261402]]"
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