page_title: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
section_title: Municipal structure
hierarchical_section_title: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte / Municipal structure
caption_attribution_description: English: Colombo
context_page_description: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, commonly known as Kotte, is the official administrative capital of Sri Lanka. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is a satellite city and located within the urban area of Sri Lanka's de facto economic and legislative capital, Colombo.
  The Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte Municipal Council area is bounded in:
  the North by Kolonnawa Urban Council area,
  the North-East by the Kotikawatta–Mulleriyawa Pradeshiya Sabha area,
  the East by the Kaduwela Municipal Council area,
  the South-East by the Maharagama Urban Council area,
  the South-West by the Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia Municipal Council and
  the West by the Colombo Municipal Council area, which is the commercial capital of Sri Lanka.
context_section_description: The Kotte Urban Development Council was created in the 1930s, with a modern building at Rajagiriya. It was succeeded by the Kotte Urban Council, which had a large section of its area removed and tagged onto the Colombo Municipal Council ward of Borella while the Battaramulla urban council was dissolved and a small section of Battaramulla tagged onto the Kotte Urban Council. The Kotte Urban Council became the Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte Municipal Council in 1997, with Chandra Silva as the first Mayor.
  There are 20 Members of the Municipal Council (MMCs), elected on proportional representation. There are 18 wards, but these are now merely polling divisions, without individual representation.
caption: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is located at the southeast of Colombo.
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