Comment by spprashant
8 days ago
It took me this map to realize the capital of Sri Lanka is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, and not Colombo as I thought for over 30 years.
Always interesting to find capital cities which are in fact not the most famous cities from that country. Makes for great trivia questions.
Not quite - it's somewhat like South Africa in that certain institutions are in Colombo and others in Kotte (specifically the legislature is in Kotte). In addition, Kotte and Colombo are nearly adjacent.