Puttalam Electoral District's population is 760,000.

The approximate area of Puttalam District in Sri Lanka is around 2,871 square kilometers.

M. F. T. Muneer has written:

'The scarcity of resources and social disintegration within the Muslim community in the Puttalam district' -- subject(s): Economic conditions, Muslims, Ethnic relations

A set of coordinates describes a single point, and every point on earth has

different coordinates. Coordinates certainly don't describe a whole country.

That point is in northwestern Sri Lanka, about 13 miles east of the center of

Puttalam, and 35 miles southwest of Anuradhapura.

There are more than 10 different Portuguese-based Creole languages. You'd have to be more specific:

1. Guinea-Bissau Creole (Kriol): lingua franca of Guinea-Bissau, also spoken in Casamance, Senegal and in Gambia.

2. Cape Verdean Creole (Kriolu, Kriol): a dialect continuum spoken on the islands of Cape Verde, with some decreolization.

3. Angolar (Ngola, N'góla): in coastal areas of São Tomé Island.

4. Annobonese (Fá d'Ambô): in Annobón Island.

5. Forro: in São Tomé.

6. Principense (Lunguyê) (almost extinct): in Príncipe Island.

7. Papiamento: spoken in Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao; Portuguese/Spanish (60%), Dutch (25%), African languages and Arawak (15%).

8. Saramaccan: spoken in Suriname; English, Portuguese, African languages (20%).

9. Diu Indo-Portuguese (almost extinct): in Diu.

10. Daman Indo-Portuguese (Língua da Casa): in Daman.

11. Kristi: in Korlai, Maharashtra.

12. Sri Lanka Indo-Portuguese: around Batticaloa and Trincomalee (Portuguese Burghers) and Puttalam (Kaffirs).

13. Kristang (Cristão): in Malacca (Malaysia) and Singapore.

14. Mardijker (extinct in 19th century): by the Mardijker people of Batavia (Jakarta).

15. Papiá Tugu (extinct in 1978): in Tugu, Indonesia.

16. Portugis (extinct around 1950): in the Ambon, Ternate islands and Minahasa, Indonesia

Bidau Portuguese (extinct in the 1960s): in the Bidau area of Dili, East Timor.