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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka
Standards
Road Traffic:left side
Electricity:
Voltage:230V
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:D,
TV Systems:
System:PAL B
DVD-Region: 5
Geography
Bordering countries:

Location:
Southern Asia, island in the Indian Ocean, south of India
Area:
total: 65,610 sq km
land: 64,740 sq km
water: 870 sq km
Climate:
tropical monsoon; northeast monsoon (December to March); southwest monsoon (June to October)
Terrain:
mostly low, flat to rolling plain; mountains in south-central interior
Economy
GDP:
$91.9 billion (2008 est.)
$86.7 billion (2007)
$81.18 billion (2006)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
GDP growth rate:
6% (2008 est.)
6.8% (2007 est.)
GDP per capita:
$4,300 (2008 est.)
$4,100 (2007 est.)
$3,900 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Inflation rate: 14.4% (2008 est.)
Currency: Sri Lankan rupee (LKR)
Exchange rates:
Sri Lankan rupees (LKR) per US dollar - 108.33 (2008), 110.78 (2007), 103.99 (2006), 100.498 (2005), 101.194 (2004)
People
Population:
21,324,791
note: since the outbreak of hostilities between the government and armed Tamil separatists in the mid-1980s, several hundred thousand Tamil civilians have fled the island and more than 200,000 Tamils have sought refuge in the West (July 2009 est.)
Growth rate: 0.904% (2009 est.)
Religions:
Buddhist 69.1%, Muslim 7.6%, Hindu 7.1%, Christian 6.2%, unspecified 10% (2001 census provisional data)
Languages:
Sinhala (official and national language) 74%, Tamil (national language) 18%, other 8%
note: English is commonly used in government and is spoken competently by about 10% of the population
Government
Capital:
name: Colombo
time difference: UTC+5.5 (10.5 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
note: Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative capital)
Independence:
4 February 1948 (from the UK)


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