Country Information Sri Lanka

Map Sri Lanka:


Capital:	Colombo; note: Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital
Geography Sri Lanka:
Continent:	Asia
Location:	Southern Asia, island in the Indian Ocean, south of India
Area:	65,61 km²
Geographic coordinates:	7 00 N, 81 00 E
Elevation extremes:	lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m
	highest point: Pidurutalagala 2,524 m
People Sri Lanka:
Population:	19,905,165 note: since the outbreak of hostilities between the government and armed Tamil separatists in the mid-1980s, several hundred thousand Tamil civilians have fled the island; as of yearend 2000, approximately 65,000 were housed in 131 refugee camps in south India, another 40,000 lived outside the Indian camps, and more than 200,000 Tamils have sought refuge in the West (July 2004 est.)
Language(s):	Sinhala, Tamil
Economy Sri Lanka:
Currency:	Sri Lankan rupee (LKR)
Currency code:	LKR
Miscellaneous Sri Lanka:
Country code plate:	CL
Internet country code:	.lk
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