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Sri Lanka is an island with 65,525sq.km Land area. It is in the Indian Ocean. Maximum Length of Sri Lanka is 432km & Maximum Breadth is 224km.It lies between 6⁰ and 10⁰ North Latitude and between the Eastern longitudes 80⁰ and 82⁰

Sri Lanka allocated 9 Provinces with 25 Districts.

v Population

Nearly 20 Million live in Sri Lanka.74% Sinhalese, 18% Tamils, 7% Moors and 1% Others. Literacy rate average 91% one of the highest in Asian countries.

v Religion (%)

Nearly 69% Buddhism, 15% Hinduism 8% Christianity and 7% Islam People live in
Sri Lanka.
             
v Climate
Cosy and elegant year around. Average temperature 27⁰ C in Colombo.In the Lowland 10⁰ at Hill Country (Altitude 1800m). The island has two wet seasons between May & July in the south-west and December – January in the north-east.Climatically Sri Lanka has no off season .During the wet season Bright sunny warm days are the rule and common.

v Time

Standard time is 5 ½ hours ahead of Greenwich.

v Water

Available Filtered & mineral waters as well as bottled drinking water. But the most popular drink is a hot cup of tea, and of course the Orange king coconut is a popular thirst quencher.

Sri Lanka Style

We welcome you to our lovely island, Sri Lanka, which is the pearl of an Indian Ocean. The island’s proud history of over 2500years and the breathtaking diversity of scenery will capture your heart.

 What may strike you most about Sri Lanka is its amazing variety of scenery. It is possible to pass radiant green paddy fields, sun-bronzed beaches, ruined cities, small beautiful villages, desert regions, sanctuaries for wildlife in tropical jungles, and hill country tea plantations verbally within hours of each other.

Sri Lanka is a paradise of unlimited sun, sea, wind and surf all year round. The coast every now and then crushes and curves into little nooks, bays and coves, ideal romantic hideaways. There are also many ecosystems with mangroves, sand dunes, lovely beaches and coral reefs.

Anuradhapura is first capital city of Sri Lanka. With inoculation from neighboring South India, the base of power shifted to Polonnaruwa, Dambadeniya, yapahuwa, Kurunegala ,Kandy and Kotte. Almost five hundred years during which the island came under the control and governs of the Portuguese, Dutch and British.

The island’s economy has traditionally been head on agriculture, with rice as the dominant food crop. With western commercial influence, rice gave way to cash crops, to the British made tea the base of the economy.

The new thrust in the economy is on export led industry. Agriculture is now being resuscitated. On-traditional exports such as garments, foliage, cut flowers, seafood, and tropical fish and value added agro-industries have in recent years support to the economic advance Sri Lanka.

Although well on the road modernization, the country and its people still feed most of their traditional values and take pride in their rich culture.

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