This is a list of placenames in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 which have subsequently been given to parts of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

 by Scottish planters

Plantation

A plantation is a long artificially established forest, farm or estate, where crops are grown for sale, often in distant markets rather than for local on-site consumption...

. Almost without exception Scottish place names in Sri Lanka occur either in the Hill Country plantations or in Colombo

Colombo

Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...

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As the Scottish tea planters, including Sri Lanka's first tea planter James Taylor

James Taylor (Ceylon)

James Taylor was a British citizen who introduced the tea plantation in Sri Lanka . He arrived to Sri Lanka in 1852 and settled down in Loolecondera estate in Kandy. He lived in Sri Lanka more than half of his lifetime 57 years until his death...

, settled in the country, they named their plantations after their hometowns in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. In Colombo places were named after Sri Lanka's British governors including Thomas Maitland.

Hill Country

• Abbey Craig
• Aberdeen
  Aberdeen, Sri Lanka
  Aberdeen, Sri Lanka is a tea estate in Sri Lanka, is famous for its picturesque waterfall Aberdeen Falls which situated in Ginigathhena, Nuwara Eliya District. Aberdeen is named after Aberdeen, the third largest city of Scotland and the capital of Aberdeenshire.-Aberdeen Falls:Aberdeen Falls is a...
  
  
• Balmoral
• Blair Atholl
• Blinkbonney
• Braemore
• Braemar
• Caledonia
• Camnethan
• Clydesdale
• Craigie Lea
• Cullen
• Dalhousie
  Dalhousie, Sri Lanka
  Dalhousie or Delhousie is a town in Nuwara Eliya District, Sri Lanka. The town is situated en route to Adam's Peak. The town borrowed its name from a nearby tea estate.-See also:*Adam's Peak*Scottish place names in Sri Lanka...
  
  
• Dunbar
• Dunkeld
• Edinburgh
• Elgin
  Elgin Falls
  Elgin Falls is a waterfall in Sri Lanka, located in the Elgin tea estate which is 18 km from the city of Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. The waterfall is 25m in height. Elgin Falls named after Elgin major town of Moray in Scotland. the falls is at about 1,900m above sea level. There are several ways...
  
  
• Eskadale
• Fordyce
• Frotoft
• Glasgow
• Glassaugh
• Gleneagles
• Goat fell
• Highland
• Holyrood
• Iona
• Kinross
• Kirkoswald
• Lammermoor
• Liddesdale
• Lonach
• Macduff
• Mayfield
• Melfort
• Midlothian
• Morar
• Moray
• Mount Vernon
• Newburgh
• Oliphant
• Portree
• Robgill
• Relugas
• St Andrew's
• St Clair's
• Sanquhar
• Strathdon
• Strathspey
• Sutherland
• Tillicoultry
• Urie
• Ythanside

Colombo

Colombo

Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...

• Kinross Avenue
• Maitland Crescent