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Colombo

Chief commercial city and seaport, and former capital, of Sri Lanka, on the west coast near the mouth of the Kelani River; population (2001 est) 642,000. It trades in the export of tea, rubber, and cacao, and its industries include iron- and steelworks, an oil refinery, and motor vehicle assembly. Colombo is the hub of the road and rail network of Sri Lanka, is served by an international airport at Katunayake, and is the main commercial centre of the island. It was succeeded as capital by nearby Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte in 1982.

Colombo was mentioned as Kalambu about 1340, but the Portuguese renamed it in honour of the explorer Christopher Columbus. The Dutch seized it in 1656 and surrendered it to Britain in 1796.



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This followed the adoption of economic and technical assistance proposals that the then Australian external affairs minister, Percy Spender, presented to the Commonwealth foreign ministers' meeting in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in January 1950.
The strings of neutralism: Burma (1) and the Colombo Plan by Adeleke, Ademola / Pacific Affairs
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