Gurunagar (Tamil: குருநகர், romanized: Kurunakar) is a coastal village in Jaffna city in northern Sri Lanka. Gurunagar is also known as Karaiyur (Tamil: கரையூர், romanized: Karaiyūr).[2][3]
The suburb is divided into two village officer divisions (Gurunagar East and Gurunagar West) whose combined population was 3,520 at the 2012 census.[1]
The suburb is mainly populated by Catholic Sri Lankan Tamils, engaged in sea activities.[4] The village is known in Jaffna due to its maritime history and also served as the western sector of the Jaffna Kingdom.[5]
^ ab"Census of Population and Housing 2012: Population by GN division and sex 2012" (PDF). Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka. p. 154.
^Pārlimēntuva, Ceylon (1957). Ceylon Sessional Papers. Government Press. p. 23.
^Holmes, Walter Robert (1980-01-01). Jaffna, Sri Lanka 1980. Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society of Jaffna College. p. 370.
^Vidyodaya. Vidyodaya Campus, University of Sri Lanka. 1986. p. 34.
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