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Geography of Sri Lanka. / 7°N 81°E / 7; 81. Sri Lanka, formerly called Ceylon, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, southeast of the Indian subcontinent, in a strategic location near major sea lanes. [1] The nation has a total area of 65,610 square kilometres (25,330 sq mi), with 64,630 square kilometres (24,950 sq mi) of land and ...
Map of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka (/ s r iː ˈ l ɑː ŋ k ə,-ˈ l æ ŋ k ə / or / ʃ r iː-/ ⓘ; Sinhalese: ශ්රී ලංකා Śrī Laṃkā, Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai) is an island country located southeast of India and northeast of the Maldives. The island is home to many cultures, languages and races.
Sri Lanka,[a]historically known as Ceylon,[b]and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island countryin South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsulaby the Gulf of Mannarand the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime borderwith the Maldivesin the southwest and ...
The concept of registration of persons and issuing identity cards was the subject of an agreement made between India and Sri Lanka in 1954, The draft bill submitted to the Sri Lankan parliament in 1962 was passed as the Act of Registration of Persons No. 32 of 1968. With the aim of activating the provisions of this Act, the Department of ...
Sri Lanka has 25 districts organized into 9 provinces. [1] Districts are further divided into a number of divisional secretariats (commonly known as D.S. divisions), which are in turn subdivided into 14,022 grama niladhari divisions. [2] There are 331 DS divisions in Sri Lanka. [3]
Cartography of Sri Lanka. The cartography of Sri Lanka is the history of the surveying and creation of maps of Sri Lanka. A list of maps of Sri Lanka in chronological order is shown below.
This site may have been important in the competition between the Mahayana and Theravada Buddhist traditions in ancient Sri Lanka. In Professor Senarath Paranavithana 's book The Story of Sigiri , King Dathusena is said to have taken the advice of the Persian Nestorian Priest Maga Brahmana on building his palace on Sigirya.
NSBM Green University, Sri Lanka NSBM Green University offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the fields of Business, Computing, Engineering, Science and Design. [8] It is located in Pitipana, Homagama , in the Colombo suburbs.