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Sri Lanka

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Capitals Colombo
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Prime minister Dinesh Gunawardena
Population21. 44
Destinations Sigiriya
Colombo
Kandy
Galle
Nuwara Eliya
Official_languagesSinhala
Tamil
English
Capital Colombo
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Currency Sri Lankan Rupee
Languages Sinhala
Tamil
Presidents Ranil Wickremesinghe
Government Unitary state
Constitutional republic
Semi-presidential system
Location statistical region population World Bank
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
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About Sri Lanka


Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.

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... The public spaces include a restaurant offering food from his native Sri Lanka and rooms with regular meditation and yoga classes...

George Alagiah's moving words written for his own memorial

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... George Maxwell Alagiah was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka - then called Ceylon - on 22 November 1955, before his family moved to Ghana in the wake of ethnic unrest...

EX-PM Truss wanted stranded migrants brought to UK

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... " Dozens of Sri Lankan Tamils have been stranded for more than two years in a makeshift camp on the remote island of Diego Garcia, which hosts a secretive UK-US military base...

Bishan Singh Bedi: Indian cricket legend dies aged 77

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... In 2002, he launched a stunning attack on Sri Lanka s spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan, accusing him of throwing...

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... In the following years, he would travel through Burma (Myanmar), Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Bombay (Mumbai), learning tricks and skills from traveling magicians, yogis and theatre artists...

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