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Mannar district

Mannar District
மன்னார் மாவட்டம்
මන්නාරම දිස්ත්‍රික්කය
Administrative District
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Location within Sri Lanka
Location within Sri Lanka
DS and GN Divisions of Mannar District, 2006
DS and GN Divisions of Mannar District, 2006
Coordinates: 08°52′N 80°04′E / 8.867°N 80.067°E / 8.867; 80.067Coordinates: 08°52′N 80°04′E / 8.867°N 80.067°E / 8.867; 80.067
Country Sri Lanka
Province Northern
Capital Mannar
DS Division
Government
 • District Secretary M. Y. S. Deshapriya
 • MPs
 • MPCs
Area
 • Total 1,996 km2 (771 sq mi)
 • Land 1,880 km2 (730 sq mi)
 • Water 116 km2 (45 sq mi)  5.81%
Area rank 13th (3.04% of total area)
Population (2012 census)
 • Total 99,051
 • Rank 24th (0.49% of total pop.)
 • Density 50/km2 (130/sq mi)
Ethnicity(2012 census)
 • Sri Lankan Tamil 80,568 (81.34%)
 • Sri Lankan Moors 16,087 (16.24%)
 • Sinhalese 1,961 (1.98%)
 • Indian Tamil 394 (0.40%)
 • Other 41 (0.04%)
Religion(2012 census)
 • Christian 56,932 (57.48%)
 • Hindu 23,464 (23.69%)
 • Muslim 16,553 (16.71%)
 • Buddhist 2,066 (2.09%)
 • Other 36 (0.04%)
Time zone Sri Lanka (UTC+05:30)
Post Codes 41000-41999
Telephone Codes 023
ISO 3166 code LK-43
Vehicle registration NP
Official Languages Tamil, Sinhala
Website Mannar District Secretariat

Mannar District (Tamil: மன்னார் மாவட்டம் Maṉṉār Māvaṭṭam; Sinhalese: මන්නාරම 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 Mannar.

Between the 5th century BC and 13th century AD, what is now Mannar District was part of Rajarata. Parts Mannar District were thereafter part of the pre-colonial Jaffna kingdom. The district then came under Portuguese, Dutch and British control. In 1815 the British gained control of the entire island of Ceylon. They divided the island into three ethnic based administrative structures: Low Country Sinhalese, Kandyan Sinhalese and Tamil. The district was part of the Tamil administration. In 1833, in accordance with the recommendations of the Colebrooke-Cameron Commission, the ethnic based administrative structures were unified into a single administration divided into five geographic provinces. Mannar District, together with Jaffna District and Vanni District, formed the new Northern Province.


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