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:

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), an 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 which 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