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Sri Lanka
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ශ්රී ලංකා
இலங்கை |
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ශ්රීලංකා -  [1]
ඉන්දියන් සාගරයේ මුතු ඇටය නමින් විරුදාවලිය ලත් ශ්රී ලංකාව, ආසියා මහද්වීපයට අයත් කුඩා දූපතකී. එය ඉන්දියාවට පහලින් දකුණු පසට වන්නට පිහිටා ඇත. එහි සම්පූර්ණ ප්රමාණය වර්ග කිලෝමීටර 65610 කි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ අග නගරය "ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ" වේ. "ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්ත්රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජය" එහි නිලනාමය වෙයි. අවුරුදු 2500 කටත් වඩා වැඩි ප්රෞඪ ලිඛිත ඉතිහාසයකට උරුමකම් කියන ශ්රී ලංකා ඉතිහාසය, ක්රි.පූ. 6 වන සියවසේ විජය කුමරුගේ ආගමනයත් සමග ආරම්භ වූ බැව් කියතත් බලංගොඩ මානවයා සොයා ගැනීමෙන් පසු එහි ඉතිහාසය ගනන් බැලිය නොහැකී දුරකට දිවයයි. ප්රථම රාජධනිය ලෙස අනුරාධපුරය සැලකෙන අතර, රාජ්ය පරපුරේ අවසානය මහනුවර නගරය විය.
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இலங்கை - இலங்கை சனநாயக சோஷலிசக் குடியரசு[2]
இலங்கை சனநாயக சோஷலிசக் குடியரசு (ශ්රී ලංකා என்று சிங்களத்திலும்/ Sri Lanka என்று ஆங்கிலத்திலும்) (சிலோன் என்று 1972க்கு முன்பும்) இந்தியத் துணைக்கண்டத்தின் தென்கீழ் கரைக்கு அப்பாலுள்ள ஒரு அழகான தீவு தேசம் ஆகும்.
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Sri Lanka - Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a majority Buddhist island nation in South Asia, located about 31 kilometres (18½ mi) off the southern coast of ► India, to the west of the ► Maldives. In the north parts of the country are under control of rebel group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. It is often popularly referred to as the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. It is home to more than 20 million people.
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| Short name |
Sri Lanka |
| Official name |
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka |
| Status |
Independent country since 1948 |
| Location |
South Asia |
| Capital |
ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ (Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte)
ஸ்ரீ ஜயவர்த்தனபுரம் கோட்டே |
| Population |
20,743,000 inhabitants |
| Area |
65,610 km² |
| Major languages |
Sinhalese, Tamil |
| Major religions |
Buddhism, Hinduism, Roman Catholicism |
| More information |
Sri Lanka, Geography of Sri Lanka, History of Sri Lanka and Politics of Sri Lanka |
| More images |
Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka (Category). |
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General maps
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Map of Sri Lanka |
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Map of Sri Lanka in Tamil |
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Topography of Sri Lanka |
History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Sri Lanka, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Sri Lanka.
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Chola Empire |
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European settlements in Sri Lanka 1501-1739 on a map of the Indian sub-continent |
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British India, not including Burma |
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Tamil Eelam territorial claim |
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Areas under control of LTTE in 2005 |
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Areas under control of LTTE in October 2008 |
Old maps
This section holds copies of original general maps older than 70 years of this entry.
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Hindustan in 1812 by Arrowsmith and Lewis |
Ethno-linguistic maps
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Languages of South Asia |
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Indo-arian languages |
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Dravidian languages |
Other maps
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Precipitation and irrigation map of Sri Lanka |
Satellite maps
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Satellite map |
Notes and references
General remarks:
- The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
- Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
- Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
- For Burma, see Myanmar; Great Britain and Northern Ireland, see United Kingdom; Ivory Coast, see Côte d'Ivoire; Pridnestrovie, see Transnistria; Taiwan, see China, Republic of; Timor-Leste, see East Timor.
- The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
- The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.
- ↑ Romanization: 'Sri Lankā - 'Sri Lankā Prajathanthrika Samajavadi Janarajaya.
- ↑ Romanization: Llankais - Llankai Chananaayaka Chosalisa Kudiyarasu.
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