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An official name with unsettled spelling

Villard is the spelling preserved here.

Villard — Sri Lanka

A name on the map

The department lists Villard for Sri Lanka’s dry zone. Other publications use Willard; the consulted page does not establish whether those spellings are interchangeable.

The names it answers to

Villard
Name listed by Sri Lanka’s Department of Agriculture. No verified alternate name is supplied here.

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