Sri Lanka

COUNTRY PROFILESri Lanka, authoritatively the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island nation in South Asia, situated in the Indian Ocean toward the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and toward the southeast of the Arabian Sea. It is isolated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. The authoritative capital, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, is a suburb of ...