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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (/sriË ËˆlÉ‘ËÅ‹kÉ™, -ËˆlÃ¦Å‹kÉ™/ or /ÊƒriË-/ (About this sound listen);[9][10] Sinhalese: à·à·Šâ€à¶»à·“ à¶½à¶‚à¶šà· ÅšrÄ« Laá¹ƒkÄ, Tamil: à®‡à®²à®™à¯à®•à¯ˆ Ilaá¹…kai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country located southeast of India and northeast of the Maldives.

The island is home to many cultures, languages and races. The majority of the population is from the Sinhalese ethnicity, while a large minority of Tamils have also played an influential role in the island's history; Christians in both groups are recent converts who have kept the traditional culture. Moors, Burghers, Malays, Kaffirs, and the aboriginal Vedda are also ...

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Lanka was known from the beginning of British colonial rule until 1972 as Ceylon (/sÉªËˆlÉ’n, seÉª-, siË-/). Its recent history has been marred by a thirty-year civil war which decisively ended when the Sri Lankan military defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009.[18]

The current constitution stipulates the political system as a republic and a unitary state governed by a semi-presidential system. It has had a long history of international engagement, as a founding member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), and a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, the G77, and the Non-Aligned Movement. Along with the Maldives, Sri Lanka is one of only two South Asian countries rated "high" on the Human Development Index (HDI), with its HDI rating and per capita income the highest among South Asian nations.[8]

The legislative capital, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, is a suburb of the commercial capital and ...

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Added: 10/11/2017 11:19:49 AM
Submitted By: nuwanpriya2017
Category: Geography
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