Sri Lanka
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| Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka இலங்கை சனநாயக சோஷலிசக் குடியரசு (Illankai Chananaayaka Chosalisa Kudiyarasu) |
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| National motto: | none | ||||
| National anthem: | "Sri Lanka Matha" | ||||
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| Official languages: | Sinhala and Tamil | ||||
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| Capital city: | Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte | ||||
| Largest city: | Colombo | ||||
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| Established: | February 04, 1948 | ||||
| Leaders: | President: Mahinda Rajapaksa Prime Minister: Ratnasiri Wickremanayake |
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Sri Lankan Rupee (LKR) | ||||
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| Time zone: | +6 | ||||
| Telephone dialing code: | +94 | ||||
| Internet domain: | .lk | ||||
The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (ශ්රී ලංකා in Sinhala / இலங்கை in Tamil) is a tropical island nation off the southeast coast of the Indian subcontinent.
It was known as Ceylon before 1972, and Serendib and Sinhale, among other names, before that.
[edit] Provinces
Sri Lanka consists of 9 provinces:
- Central
- North Central
- North
- Eastern
- North Western
- Sabaragamuwa
- Southern
- Uva
- Western
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