Jaffna is a populated place in Sri Lanka. GeoNames lists its administrative area as Northern Province.

Its mapped location is latitude 9.66845° and longitude 80.00742° (WGS84). The recorded IANA time zone is Asia/Colombo. The country record uses the currency code LKR. The source record reports a population of 169,102; this is a recorded figure, not a live population count.

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