Sri Lanka
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Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka இலங்கை சனநாயக சோஷலிசக் குடியரசு (Illankai Chananaayaka Chosalisa Kudiyarasu) |
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The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (ශ්රී ලංකා in Sinhala / இலங்கை in Tamil) is a tropical island nation off the southeast coast of the Indian subcontinent.
It was known as Ceylon before 1972, and Serendib and Sinhale, among other names, before that.
[edit] Provinces
Sri Lanka consists of 9 provinces:
- Central
- North Central
- North
- Eastern
- North Western
- Sabaragamuwa
- Southern
- Uva
- Western
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