• Area Code: 1-2 digits
• Subscriber Number: 4-6 digits

Area Code List

• 1 Colombo (Ratmalana) - also Kelaniya, Kotte, Maharagama, Moratuwa
• 1 Dehiwela
• 21 Jaffna
• 23 Mannar
• 24 Vavuniya
• 25 Anuradhapura
• 26 Trincomalee
• 27 Giritale, Polonnaruwa
• 30 Katunayake (Int. Apt.)
• 31 Negombo
• 32 Chilaw, Puttalama
• 33 Gampaha [standard 5-digit local numbers announced 1995 (MCI)]
• 34 Bentota, Beruwela, Kalutara
• 35 Kegalle
• 36 Avissawella
• 37 Kurunegalla, Panalla
• 41 Matara
• 415 Weligama
• 45 Ratnapura
• 472 Hambantota
• 512 Hatton
• 52 Nuwara-Eliya [also/was 522?]
• 542 Nawalapitiya
• 55 Badulla, Buttala, Rantembe
• 57 Bandarawela, Olugantota
• 63 Ampara
• 65 Batticaloa
• 66 Habarana, Matale, Sigirya
• 67 Kalmunai
• 71 Mount Lavinia [new? formerly in 1?]
• 72 formerly Moratuwa (changed to Colombo area 1)
• 8 Kandy
• 9 Ahungalla, Galle, Habaraduwa, Hikkaduwa
• 927 Kosgoda
• 97 Ambalongoda

• starting 2001? - National renumbering
  • Sri Lanka's Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) has informed WTNG in August 1999 that Sri Lanka's numbering plan will be converted to an 8-digit "closed" numbering plan within the next three years. No further details from TRC are available at this time.
  • However, there is disagreement to a new TRC numbering plan from Sri Lanka Telecom, which wants to wait until it can re-balance its tariffs. This news, and a suggestion that the new numbering plan conversion could begin in 2001, was included in the article Regulator in numbers crunch in the Sunday Times.