Sri Lanka
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| Capitals | Colombo |
|---|---|
| Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte | |
| Prime minister | Dinesh Gunawardena |
| Population | 21. 44 |
| Destinations | Sigiriya |
| Colombo | |
| Kandy | |
| Galle | |
| Nuwara Eliya | |
| Official_languages | Sinhala |
| 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. | |
| ID | 405654 |
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...
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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
... " 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...
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... In 2002, he launched a stunning attack on Sri Lanka s spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan, accusing him of throwing...
Kuda Bux: The Indian magician who charmed the West with his 'X-ray eyes'
... 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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