Jaffna District
Administrative units

Jaffna District

Section Title: Administrative units
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DS Division	Main Town	Divisional Secretary	GN Divisions	Area (km2)	Population (2012 Census)	Population Density (/km2)

Sri Lankan Tamil	Sinhalese	Sri Lankan Moors	Indian Tamil	Other	Total

Delft	A. Siri	6	45	3,780	38	0	1	0	3,819	85

Islands North	Kayts	Anton Yoganayagam	15	30	9,846	129	3	19	0	9,997	333

Islands South	Velanai	Manchulathevi Satheesan	30	78	16,379	6	125	15	0	16,525	212

Jaffna	Jaffna	Sugunarathy Theivendram	28	17	48,413	504	1,682	104	56	50,759	2,986

Karainagar	Karainagar	Thevanthini Babu	9	22	9,533	0	0	9	2	9,544	434

Nallur	Nallur	Palasingam Senthilnanthanan	40	38	67,777	199	45	21	6	68,048	1,791

Thenmarachchi	Chavakachcheri	Anjalidevi Santhaseelan	60	221	64,162	247	62	169	45	64,685	293

Vadamarachchi East	Maruthankerney	Nadarajah Thirulinganathan	18	179	12,718	1	3	16	0	12,738	71

Vadamarachchi North	Point Pedro	R. T. Jeyaseelan	35	29	47,183	167	12	26	1	47,389	1,634

Vadamarachchi South West	Karaveddy	S. Sivasri	35	88	45,495	73	18	38	4	45,628	519

Valikamam East	Kopay	Maruthalingam Pradeepan	31	102	72,908	252	101	35	2	73,298	719

Valikamam North	Tellippalai	Kanagarajah Shrimohanan	45	57	28,179	1,336	21	4	6	29,546	518

Valikamam South	Uduvil	M. Nanthagopalan	30	30	52,574	190	44	25	0	52,833	1,761

Valikamam South West	Sandilipay	Subramaniyam Muralitharan	28	45	52,039	159	18	8	2	52,226	1,161

Valikamam West	Chankanai	25	44	46,260	65	5	9	4	46,343	1,053

Total	435	1,025	577,246	3,366	2,139	499	128	583,378	569

Sentence(s)

The DS Divisions are sub-divided into 435 Grama Niladhari Divisions (GN Divisions).

final_sentence: The DS Divisions are sub-divided into 435 Grama Niladhari Divisions (GN Divisions).