Ceylon (disambiguation)

Ceylon was the English name applied to the South Asian island nation of Sri Lanka until it repudiated its status as a Dominion and became a republic in 1972.

Ceylon may also refer to:

Places

Sri Lanka

• Portuguese Ceylon (Ceilão), a Portuguese colony between 1505 and 1658
• Dutch Ceylon (Zeylan), a Dutch East India Company territory between 1640 and 1796
• British Ceylon, a British territory from 1815 to 1948
• Dominion of Ceylon, a dominion in the British Commonwealth between 1948 and 1972
• Jung Ceylon, the same English name was given to Jang Si Lang (modern day Phuket)

Canada

• Ceylon, Saskatchewan, a village
• Ceylon, Ontario, a village

United States

• Ceylon, Georgia, a ghost town
• Ceylon, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Ceylon, Minnesota, a city
• Ceylon, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community

Philippines

• Ceylon, old name of the island of Leyte in early Spanish maps

Ships

• HMS Ceylon (1808), a 32-gun frigate in the Royal Navy
• HMS Ceylon (30), a Fiji-class cruiser commissioned in 1943
  • Ceylon-class cruiser, a sub-class of the Fiji-class cruisers

Other uses

• Ceylon tea, a brand of tea produced and packed in Sri Lanka
• Ceylon (curry), a family of curry recipes
• Ceylon (film), an Indian film
• Ceylon (programming language), a programming language announced by Red Hat in 2011
• 45604 Ceylon, a British LMS Jubilee Class locomotive

People with the given name

• Ceylon Manohar (c. 1944–2018), Tamil pop singer and actor
• Ceylon Wright (1893–1947), American baseball player

See also

• Air Ceylon, the Sri Lankan national airline until 1978, then replaced by Air Lanka
• Ceylon ironwood or Mesua ferrea, a plant native to Sri Lanka
• Names of Sri Lanka
• Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in south Asia, then replaced by Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation in 1967