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Sri Lanka—Profile Summary
1,240 words, approx. 4 pages (2001 est. pop. 19.4 million). A small island nation located at the southernmost tip of the Indian subcontinent and measuring only 65,610 square kilometers, Sri Lanka has a diversified geography that includes harmoniously associated landscapes of...
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Sri Lanka Summary
663 words, approx. 2 pages Sri Lanka Sri Lanka is an island, roughly the size of West Virginia, at the southern tip of India. It is separated from its large neighbor, India, by about 29 kilometers (18 miles) of sea. The Sinhala, who constitute about 75 percent of the...
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Sri Lanka—Human Rights Summary
376 words, approx. 1 pages Sri Lanka is a democratic island-state with a multiparty system. After attaining independence from the British empire in 1948, Sri Lankan ruling elites retained the colonial constitution while from time to time incorporating legislative acts. A new...
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Sri Lanka—Education System Summary
309 words, approx. 1 pages Education in the sense of a state's obligation to provide for a tax-financed general system of primary, secondary and "high"-schools did not exist in Sri Lanka's Buddhist medieval society. Buddhist monasteries imparted...
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Sri Lanka Information
9,509 words, approx. 32 pages
 <p> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="line-height:1.2em; text-align:center;"><b>Anthem: </b>"Sri Lanka Matha"<br/>Music <span class="metadata audiolinkinfo"><small>(help·info) , Singing <span class="metadata audiolinkinfo"><small>(help·info)...



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Sri Lanka
12/31/2006: 441 words, approx. 2 pages Area: 65,610 sq km (25,332 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 19,879,000Capitals: Colombo (executive and judicial); Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (legislative)Head of state and government: President Mahinda Rajapakse , assisted by Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake Following his election as president in 2005, Mahinda Rajapakse attempted in 2006 to...
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Sri Lanka violence timeline
11/2/2007: 698 words, approx. 2 pages Major developments in Sri Lanka's conflict._ 1975: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam group forms. The group demands a separate state for minority ethnic Tamils in the island's north and east._ 1983: Civil war begins, sparked by anti-Tamil riots in the capital, Colombo. Many believe the...


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