Click to see country in continent: Sri Lanka
Capital: Colombo Population: 20mln Surface: 65,610 sq km Languages:
Sinhalese, Tamil, English
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The Veddha were the earliest people known to have inhabited Sri Lanka. Small villages in the rainforest are still home to the Veddha people who account for one percent of the population
Exact population: 20,222,240 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 2006 est.) Literacy: Total population: 92.3%; male: 94.8%; female: 90% Ethnicities: Sinhalese 73.8%, Sri Lankan Moors 7.2%, Indian Tamil 4.6%, Sri Lankan Tamil 3.9%, other 0.5%, unspecified 10% (2001 census provisional data) Land boundaries: 0 km Terrain: Mostly low, flat to rolling plain; mountains in south-central interior Extremes: Lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m; highest point: Pidurutalagala 2,524 m Imports: India 18%, Singapore 8.7%, Hong Kong 7.7%, China 5.7%, Iran 5.2%, Japan 5.1%, Malaysia 4.1% (2004) Exports: US 32.4%, UK 13.5%, India 6.8%, Germany 4.8% (2004) Industries: Rubber processing, tea, coconuts, and other agricultural commodities; telecommunications, insurance, and banking; clothing, cement, petroleum refining, textiles, tobacco
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