![]() Sri Lanka has a population of around 22 million (2020) and is a multinational state, home to diverse cultures, languages, and ethnicities. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is its legislative capital, and Colombo is its largest city and financial centre. Sri Lanka shares a maritime border with India and the Maldives. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, and southeast of the Arabian Sea it is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. Sri Lanka ( UK: / s r i ˈ l æ ŋ k ə, ʃ r iː -/, US: /- ˈ l ɑː ŋ k ə/ ( listen) Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකාව, romanized: Śrī Laṅkā ( IPA: ) Tamil: இலங்கை, romanized: Ilaṅkai ( IPA: )), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. ![]() You may need rendering support to display the Indic text in this article correctly.
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