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Ampara District

Ampara District
அம்பாறை மாவட்டம்
අම්පාර දිස්ත්‍රික්කය
Administrative District
Paddy field in Oluvil
Paddy field in Oluvil
Location within Sri Lanka
Location within Sri Lanka
Coordinates: 07°05′N 81°45′E / 7.083°N 81.750°E / 7.083; 81.750Coordinates: 07°05′N 81°45′E / 7.083°N 81.750°E / 7.083; 81.750
Country Sri Lanka
Province Eastern
Created April 1961
Capital Ampara
DS Division
Government
 • District Secretary Neel De Alwis
 • MPs
 • MPCs
Area
 • Total 4,415 km2 (1,705 sq mi)
 • Land 4,222 km2 (1,630 sq mi)
 • Water 193 km2 (75 sq mi)  4.37%
Area rank 4th (6.73% of total area)
Population (2012 census)
 • Total 648,057
 • Rank 14th (3.20% of total pop.)
 • Density 150/km2 (380/sq mi)
Ethnicity(2012 census)
 • Moor 282,484 (43.59%)
 • Sinhalese 251,018 (38.73%)
 • Sri Lankan Tamil 112,750 (17.40%)
 • Burgher 849 (0.13%)
 • Other 956 (0.15%)
Religion(2012 census)
 • Muslim 282,746 (43.63%)
 • Buddhist 250,213 (38.61%)
 • Hindu 102,454 (15.81%)
 • Christian 12,609 (1.95%)
 • Other 35 (0.01%)
Time zone Sri Lanka (UTC+05:30)
Post Codes 32000-32999
Telephone Codes 063, 067
ISO 3166 code LK-52
Vehicle registration EP
Official Languages Tamil, Sinhala
Website Ampara District Secretariat

Ampara District (Tamil: அம்பாறை மாவட்டம் Ampāṟai Māvaṭṭam; Sinhalese: අම්පාර දිස්ත්‍රික්කය) is one of the 25 districts of Sri Lanka, the second level administrative division of the country. The district is administered by a District Secretariat headed by a District Secretary (previously known as a Government Agent) appointed by the central government of Sri Lanka. The capital of the district is the town of Ampara. The district was carved out of the southern part of Batticaloa District in April 1961.

Ampara District is located in the south east of Sri Lanka in the Eastern Province. It has an area of 4,415 square kilometres (1,705 sq mi).


Ampara District's population was 648,057 in 2012. The district is one of the most diverse in Sri Lanka, both ethnically and religiously.

The population of the district, like the rest of the east and north, was affected by the civil war. The war killed an estimated 100,000 people. Several hundred thousand Sri Lankan Tamils, possibly as much as one million, emigrated to the West during the war. Many Sri Lankan Tamils also moved to the relative safety of the capital Colombo. The war also caused many people from all ethnic and religious groups who lived in the district to flee to other parts of Sri Lanka, though most of them have returned to the district since the end of the civil war.


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