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By far the largest island off the coast of India, Sri Lanka was part of the British Empire until gaining independence as Ceylon, in 1948. The island faces the Bay on Bengal to the east, the Indian Ocean to the south an the Gulf of Mannar to the west. With a surface area of 65,610 sq km, Sri Lanka is the 21st largest island in the world, and the 7th largest island nation, behind Australia, Madagascar, great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), Cuba, Iceland and Ireland.

Population:

21,283,913

GDP per capita:

$5,065.56 per capita

Capital with population:

Colombo (official) - 1,994,000; Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (legislative and judicial) - 107,000

Largest city with population:

Colombo - 1,994,000

Alternative names:

Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, ceylon


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SriLankan
16th September 2011
This is the "PERL OF THE INDIAN OCEAN". After defeating 30 years terrorist's activities Sri Lanka is resetled as a peaceful country.
We are very kindness & try to be a rich country at the everyway. **HELP US but Dont INTERFERE UNNECCESARALY PLEASE.** Thanks
sag
16th January 2011
Beautiful
lionel
8th September 2009
Useful website, but need to be updated. For an instance, Sri Lanka's major problem, war was ended on May 18 after the security forces crushed the LTTE
harint\\
5th April 2005
to get a us dolla rate fo sri lankan rupees
was on 31/03/2005
harint
5th April 2005
I need info on what was the US dollar exchange rate for Sri Lankan rupees on 31/03/2005.
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