Sri Lanka (lka)

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka ranks 9,833rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Nachikatsuura, Rajasthan, and Sueca, Valencia. Memorable people born in Sri Lanka include William Chester Minor, and Susanthika Jayasinghe. Memorable people who died in Sri Lanka include Buddhaghosa, and Prince Vijaya. Sri Lanka has been the birth place of many physicians, and athletes and the death place of many philosophers, and politicians. Sri Lanka is located in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest and India in the northwest. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital of Sri Lanka and the largest city, Colombo is the administrative and judicial capital which is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Kandy is the second-largest urban area and also the capital of the last native kingdom of Sri Lanka. The most spoken language Sinhala, is spoken by the majority of the population. Tamil is also spoken by approximately five million people, making it the second most-spoken language in Sri Lanka. Read more on Wikipedia