Sri Lanka Provinces Districts Cities Database

About

This is a MySQL version of Sri Lankan Provinces => Districts => Cities, and related data. Each city has longitude, latitude, and postal code (postcode) other than its name.

Data Errors

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There are three SQL files,

1. provinces.sql (Names of nine provinces)
2. districts.sql (All districts related to each province)
3. cities.sql (All cities related to each district)

Updates

• July 18, 2016 - Changed the structure of cities table ability to add sub-city names.
• April 25, 2022 - Completed translations in all three languages.

Statistics

• Provinces - 9
• Districts - 25
• Cities - 2154

Sample tables structure with data

Provinces

id	name_en	name_si	name_ta
1	Western	බස්නාහිර	மேல
2	Central	මධ්‍යම	மத்தி

Districts

id	province_id	name_en	name_si	name_ta
1	6	Ampara	අම්පාර	அம்பாறை
2	8	Anuradhapura	අනුරාධපුරය	அனுராதபுரம்

Cities

id	district_id	name_en	name_si	name_ta	sub_name_en	sub_name_si	sub_name_ta	postcode	latitude	longitude
338	5	Colombo 8	කොළඹ 8	கொழும்பு 8	Borella	බොරැල්ල	பொறளை	00800	6.914722	79.877778
376	5	Colombo 6	කොළඹ 6	கொழும்பு 6	Wellawatta	වැල්ලවත්ත	வெள்ளவத்தை	00600	6.874657	79.860483

Installation

To prevent unnecessary errors from occurring, start to import or execute provinces.sql, then districts.sql, and lastly cities.sql

Usage

Advantages of latitude and longitude

• Integrate with Google Maps or any map-related service to show the exact place of the city on the map.
• Find locations within a certain radius of a given latitude/longitude.

Find nearby locations using the Haversine formula

Here's the SQL statement that will find the closest locations within a radius of 25 kilometers to the 7.358849, 81.280133 coordinate. It calculates the distance based on the latitude/longitude of that row and the target latitude/longitude and then asks for only rows where the distance value is less than 25, ordering the whole query by distance.

SELECT id, name_en, name_si, name_ta, (6371 * ACOS(COS(RADIANS(7.358849)) * COS(RADIANS(latitude)) * COS(RADIANS(longitude) - RADIANS(81.280133)) + SIN(RADIANS(7.358849)) * SIN(RADIANS(latitude)))) AS distance
FROM cities
HAVING distance < 25
ORDER BY distance

The above assumes that you have distance in kilometers. If distance is in miles then replace 6371 with 3959.

References:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversine_formula
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/574691/mysql-great-circle-distance-haversine-formula

Note

• This free database does not guarantee the complete list of cities in Sri Lanka.
• Feel free to contribute to the project.

Translation status

Provinces

සිංහල	தமிழ
100%	100%

Districts

සිංහල	தமிழ
100%	100%

Cities

සිංහල	தமிழ
100%	100%