Region: Asia
Capital: Colombo
Population: 21,283,913
Area: 64,630 km²
Currency: Sri Lanka Rupee (LKR)
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in the northern Indian Ocean off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent in South Asia. Known until 1972 as Ceylon, Sri Lanka has maritime borders with India to the northwest and the Maldives to the southwest. Wikipedia
