Jaffna District

Jaffna District யாழ்ப்பாணம் மாவட்டம் යාපනය දිස්ත්‍රික්කය
Administrative District
Farmland in Kandarodai
Coordinates: 09°40′N 80°10′E / 9.667°N 80.167°E / 9.667; 80.167
Country	Sri Lanka
Province	Northern
Capital	Jaffna
DS Division	List Delft Islands North Islands South Jaffna Karativu Nallur Thenmarachchi Vadamarachchi East Vadamarachchi North Vadamarachchi SW Valikamam East Valikamam North Valikamam South Valikamam SW Valikamam West
Government
• District Secretary	S. Arumainayaham
• MPs	List Silvestri Alantine Murugesu Chandrakumar Douglas Devananda Vijayakala Maheswaran Suresh Premachandran E. Saravanapavan Mavai Senathirajah S. Sritharan A. Vinayagamoorthy
• MPCs	List E. Arnold P. Ayngaranesan B. Gajatheepan K. Kamalendran Vinthan Kanagaratnam A. Paranjothy A. Ramanathan K. Sarveswaran Ananthi Sasitharan K. Sayanthan M. K. Shivajilingam D. Siddarthan C. V. K. Sivagnanam V. Sivayogan C. Sukirthan C. V. Vigneswaran
Area [1]
• Total	1,025 km2 (396 sq mi)
• Land	929 km2 (359 sq mi)
• Water	96 km2 (37 sq mi)  9.37%
• Rank	24th (1.56% of total area)
Population  (2012 census)[2]
• Total	583,378
• Rank	16th (2.88% of total pop.)
• Density	570/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+05:30 (Sri Lanka)
Post Codes	40000-40999
Telephone Codes	021
ISO 3166 code	LK-41
Vehicle registration	NP
Official Languages	Tamil, Sinhala
Website	Jaffna District Secretariat

Jaffna District (Tamil: யாழ்ப்பாணம் மாவட்டம் Yāḻppāṇam Māvaṭṭam; Sinhala: යාපනය දිස්ත්‍රික්කය) is one of the 25 districts of Sri Lanka. Districts are the second level of administrative division of the country. The capital of the district is the city of Jaffna.

Jaffna District is divided into 15 Divisional Secretary's Division (DS Divisions), each headed by a Divisional Secretary (previously known as an Assistant Government Agent).^[3] The DS Divisions are further sub-divided into 435 Grama Niladhari Divisions (GN Divisions).^[3]

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