High School CEEB Codes in Sri Lanka

topschoolsintheusa May 2, 2019

There are 11 high school codes in Sri Lanka today, according to the ACT. The full list is shown below by city, with name of each high school and the city where the school is located (based on the ACT official site). You can search a school code by pressing “Ctrl” + “F” and then type school name or 6-digit school code.

Map of Sri Lanka

High School Codes by City

The above lists CEEB codes (College Entrance Examination Board) for all accredited Sri Lanka high schools. Please be informed that the list of high school codes in Sri Lanka may change throughout the year. If you can’t find codes for the high schools of your interest, please write to us or come back at a later time. We will update our database soon after a new high school code is added to the country of Sri Lanka.

Country Abbreviations

Sri Lanka [“happy Lanka”], official names: Sinhala Sri Lanka Prajatantrika Samajavadi Janarajaya [-prad ʒ a-, samad ʒ a-, d ʒ anarad ʒ a-], Tamil Ilangai Jananayaka Socialisa Kudiarasu, German Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, until 1972 Ceylon, island state in South Asia, off the Indian subcontinent, with (2018) 21.7 million residents; The capital is de facto Colombo and de jure Sri Jayewardenepura.

Sri Lanka comprises the island of Ceylon and 23 small islands in the Indian Ocean.

LKA is the three-letter country code of Sri Lanka, and LK is the two-letter country code of Sri Lanka. The two-letter suffix is used in top-level domains on the Internet as .lk.

Transportation

Sri Lanka is located at the intersection of important shipping and air transport routes and, with the exception of the south-eastern parts of the island, has a well-developed transport network. Both the first road connections and the first railway line Colombo – Kandy were built under British colonial rule. The current network of railways (1,450 km) connects the centers in the southwest with the agricultural production areas in the highlands, as well as with the east coast and the extreme north, the Jaffna peninsula. A ferry connection over the Adams Bridge provides the connection to the South Indian Railway. The road network (114 100 km) is very dense, but heavily congested. The main port is Colombo. Bandaranaike International Airport is 25 miles north of Colombo.

Population

75% of the population are Sinhalese, who lived around the 5th century BC. Chr. Immigrated. In the wake of sometimes armed conflict, Dravidian Tamils invadedone (first around 200 BC), whose descendants live on the east coast and in the north (“Jaffna Tamils”, around 11% of the population). During the time of British colonial rule, plantation workers from southern India were settled in the Sinhalese mountainous country, the “Indian Tamils” (today around 4% of the population). After the independence of India and Ceylon, these lost their citizenship rights and remained stateless. Half of them were repatriated to India under two pacts with India (1964, 1974); the rest successively received Sri Lankan citizenship. The indigenous population (Wedda), which hardly exists any more, lives mainly in the eastern parts of the country. Further social groups are the Moors (around 9% of the population, descendants and mixed race of Arabs), which decimated strongly Burghers and a small number of Malays. The official languages ​​of Sri Lanka are Sinhala (belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indian language) and Tamil (belonging to the Dravidian branch of the Indian languages); the lingua franca is English.

The average population density is (2017) 342 residents / km ². The population distribution is very uneven; the most densely populated is the rainy southwest, where 60% of the population is concentrated in 20% of the country’s area. The proportion of the urban population is 18%. Around 1.7 million Sri Lankans work abroad (mostly in the Middle East).

The biggest cities in Sri Lanka

Biggest Cities (Residents 2012)
Colombo	561 300
Kaduwela	252,000
Maharagama	196 400
Kesbewa	185 100
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia	184 500