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SRI LANKA
- Sri Lanka is officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean southwest of the Bay of Bengal and southeast of the Arabian Sea.
- It is geographically separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
- Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is its legislative capital, and Colombo its largest city and centre of commerce.
Explanation:
Capital : Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Largest city : Colombo
Official languages : Sinhala, Tamil
Recognised languages : English
Ethnic groups : 74.9% Sinhalese
11.2% Sri Lankan Tamils
9.2% Sri Lankan Moors
4.2% Indian Tamils
0.5% Others (incl. Burghers, Malays, Veddas, Chinese, Indians)
Religions : 70.2% Buddhism
12.6% Hinduism
9.7% Islam
7.4% Christianity
0.1% Other/NoneDemonym(s)
Sri Lankan government : Unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic
• President : Gotabaya Rajapaksa
• Prime Minister : Mahinda Rajapaksa
• Speaker of the Parliament : Karu Jayasuriya
• Chief Justice : Jayantha Jayasuriya
• Republic : 22 May 1972
• Current constitution : 7 September 1978
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