Official Name: | Wahunkoha |
Other Name: | Wahanga |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Sri Lanka |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Central Province |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Timezone: | Sri Lanka Standard Time |
Utc Offset: | +5:30 |
Coordinates: | 7.2167°N 115°W |
Wahunkoha is a village in Central Province, Sri Lanka. It is in the Udunuwara constituency, from historic Embekka Devalaya.
Wahunkoha is served a Muslim Jummah mosque and Arafa Muslim Mahavidyalaya. The school is administered by the central provincial council. The inhabitants are Muslims; their forefathers migrated from coastal Sri Lanka during the Portuguese atrocities against the Muslims. The ruler of the Kandiyan Kingdom, King Senarath, settled and the stranded Muslims inhabited many parts of Sri Lanka.[1]