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There are many ways to find out the location and diversity of medicinal herbs for documentation. The detail study of herbal place names is one of them. This study was carried out to identify and documentation of herb based place names of Mullaitivu District in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. The data was collected from field study, interviews, Government publications, books and authentic journals. Among the 632 villages of this district, 183 villages (30%) were related to herbs names. The types of herbs relevant to the place names were 64% trees, 16% shrubs, 10% grasses, 8% creepers and 2% aquatic plants. Details are described in this article.

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The paper details on the sources with ample proof to know about the names of the places on the names of the herbs or plants which are still in use at Vavunia of Sri Lanka.