Colombo in five emoji

What each emoji refers to

🍵

Ceylon tea kept the old name after the country changed its own, because the brand was worth more than the consistency.

🐘

Temple elephants are still kept for processions, and the practice is argued about locally as much as abroad.

🏏

Sri Lanka won the World Cup in 1996 playing a batting style that everyone else then copied.

🌊

Galle Face Green is a strip of lawn along the sea where the whole city goes at sunset.

🛕

Gangaramaya is Buddhist, but Hindu kovils and mosques sit within a few streets of it.

Colombo at a glance

Country

Sri Lanka

Coordinates

6.89° N, 79.90° E

First played

17 April 2026

Also accepted

Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, Kotte

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Colombo.