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Ampara District (; ) is one of the 25 districts of Sri Lanka, the second-level administrative divisions of the country. The district is administered by a District Secretariat headed by a District Secretary (previously known as a Government Agent) appointed by the central government of Sri Lanka. The Capital city of the district is the town of Ampara. The district was carved out of the southern part of Batticaloa District in April 1961.
The north-western panhandle of Ampara District (Dehiyattakandiya D.S. Division) is separated from the rest of the district and Eastern Province by the Maduru Oya Reservoir.
The population of the district, like the rest of the east and north, was affected by the civil war. The war killed an estimated 100,000 people. Several hundred thousand Sinhalese move to west side of the country. Many Sri Lankan Tamils also moved to the relative safety of the capital Colombo. The war also caused many people from all ethnic and religious groups who lived in the district to flee to other parts of Sri Lanka, though most of them have returned to the district since the end of the civil war.
| + Population of Ampara District by ethnic group 1963 to 2012 |
| 211,732 |
| 272,605 |
| 388,970 |
| 592,997 |
| 610,719 |
| 648,057 |
| + Population of Ampara District by religion 1981 to 2012 |
| 388,970 |
| 592,997 |
| 648,057 |
| 9 |
| 7 |
| 9 |
| 9 |
| 9 |
| 9 |
| 21 |
| 7 |
| 19 |
| 5 |
| 11 |
| 10 |
| 9 |
| 7 |
| 7 |
| 11 |
| 9 |
| 9 |
| 9 |
| 15 |
| 201 |
| 147 |
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