Scottish place names in Sri Lanka
- Scottish place names in Sri Lanka
This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been applied to parts of Sri Lanka by Scottish planters.Almost exclusively Scottish place names in Sri Lanka occur either in Hill Country plantations or Colombo.
As the Scottish tea planters including Sri Lanka's first Tea planter James Taylor settled in the country, they name their plantations after their hometowns back in Scotland. Colombo Scottish places named after Sri Lanka's British Governors like Thomas Maitland.
Hill Country
* Aberdeen
* Balmoral
* Blair Atholl
* Braemore
* Braemar
* Caledonia
* Clydesdale
* Cullen
* Dalhousie
* Dunbar
* Dunkeld
* Elgin
* Eskadale
* Frotoft
* Glasgow
* Gleneagles
* Goat fell
* Highland
* Iona
* Kinross
* Kirkoswald
* Lammermoor
* Liddesdale
* Macduff
* Midlothian
* Morar
* Moray
* Newburgh
* Portree
* St.Andrew's
* Sanquhar
* Strathspey
* Sutherland
* Tillicoultry
* Urie
* Ythanside
Low Country
*Clyde
*Culloden
*Perth
Colombo
*Maitland Crescent
*Kinross Avenue
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