Ethnic Sinhalese in Sri Lanka. The numbers shown is the percentage of sinhalese in the district. Based on the 2001 census data except for the districts with numbers in <i>cursive</i>; these are from 1981 census instead. Between 1981 and 2001 large-scale population movement has occurred, but no accurate data exists. The census data is available from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.statistics.gov.lk">Department of Census and Statistics</a>. Based on <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gislanka_locator.svg" title="File:Gislanka locator.svg">Image:Gislanka locator.svg</a> created by Regunathan Umapathy (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Umapathy" title="User:Umapathy">User:Umapathy</a>), which is licenced under GDFL+CC-BY-2.5.
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