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Sri Lanka

The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a sovereign state off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. An island nation in South Asia, it was known as Ceylon until 1972. Sri Lanka is surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar, the Palk Strait and lies in the vicinity of India and Maldives.

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