Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, is in South Asia. In the Indian Ocean just south of India, Sri Lanka is an island known for its natural beauty. Sri Lanka has stunning beaches all along its coastline, great wildlife and biodiversity, tea plantations, orchards, temples, monuments, and a cultural heritage dating back several millennia.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Colombo and Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte.
Colombo
Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte
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Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is the capital city of Sri Lanka. In practice, it is a suburb of Colombo, which completely surrounds it. Over 100,000 people live in Kotte itself.
Kandy
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Western Province and Southern Province.
Western Province
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Western Sri Lanka is a province in Sri Lanka. Being the province where the capital and the main international airport are, nearly all travellers to Sri Lanka will start their holiday here.
Southern Province
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The Southern Province of Sri Lanka is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of the country. The provinces have existed since the 19th century but did not have any legal status until 1987 when the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka established provincial councils.
Central Province
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The Central Province is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka. The province has an area of 567,400 ha and a population of 2,421,148, making it the second most populated province.
Northern Province
North Central Province
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North Central Province is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka. The province has an area of 10,472 km2, making it the largest province by area, and a population of 1,266,663, making it the 3rd least populated province. Anuradhapura is the capital city of the province.
Eastern Province
Uva
North Western Province
Sabaragamuwa
Sri Lanka
- Type: Country with 21,800,000 residents
- Description: island country in South Asia
- Also known as: “ce”, “Ceylan”, “Ceylon”, “Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka”, “Dominion of Ceylon”, “Lanka, Sri”, “lk”, “lke”, “Serendib”, “sri”, “SRI”, “Sri Lankā Janarajaya”, “Srilanka”, and “Taprobane”
- Languages: Sinhala, Tamil, and English
- Neighbors: India
- Categories: sovereign state, island country, and locality
- Location: South Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
7.63° or 7° 37′ 48″ northLongitude of center
80.72° or 80° 43′ 12″ eastPopulation
21,800,000Area
65,610 km² (25,332 miles²)Elevation
394 metres (1,293 feet)Capital
ColomboCurrency
Rupee (LKR)Phone code
.lkInternet domain
94OpenStreetMap ID
node 3997635385OpenStreetMap feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
1227603Wikidata ID
Q854
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Sri Lanka” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Шри-Ланка”
- Achinese: “Srilanka”
- Afrikaans: “Sri Lanka”
- Akan: “Sri Lanka”
- Albanian: “Sri Lanka”
- Albanian: “Sri-Lankë”
- Amharic: “ሲሪላንካ”
- Amharic: “ሽሪ ላንካ”
- Amis: “Sri lanka”
- Angika: “श्रीलंका”
- Arabic: “جمهورية سريلنكا الاشتراكية الديمقراطية”
- Arabic: “سري لانكا”
- Arabic: “سري لنكا”
- Arabic: “سريلانكا”
- Arabic: “سريلنكا”
- Aragonese: “Sri Lanka”
- Armenian: “Շրի Լանկա”
- Arpitan: “Sri Lanka”
- Assamese: “শ্রীলংকা”
- Assamese: “শ্ৰীলংকা”
- Assamese: “শ্ৰীলঙ্কা”
- Asturian: “Sri Lanka”
- Atayal: “Sri lanka”
- Awadhi: “श्रीलंका”
- Azerbaijani: “Şri-Lanka”
- Balinese: “Sri Lanka”
- Bambara: “Sirilanka”
- Bashkir: “Шри-Ланка”
- Basque: “Sri Lanka”
- Bavarian: “Sri Lanka”
- Belarusian: “Цэйлон”
- Belarusian: “Шры-Ланка”
- Bengali: “শ্রীলঙ্কা”
- Betawi: “Sélong”
- Bhojpuri: “श्री लंका”
- Bishnupriya: “শ্রীলঙ্কা”
- Bosnian: “Šri Lanka”
- Breton: “Selan”
- Breton: “Sri Lanka”
- Buginese: “Sri Lanka”
- Bulgarian: “Демократична социалистическа република Шри Ланка”
- Bulgarian: “Цейлон”
- Bulgarian: “Шри Ланка”
- Burmese: “သီရိလင်္ကာ”
- Burmese: “သီရိလင်္ကာနိုင်ငံ”
- Catalan: “Ceilà”
- Catalan: “Ceylà”
- Catalan: “República socialista democràtica de Sri Lanka”
- Catalan: “Sri Lanka”
- Catalan: “Srilanka”
- Cebuano: “Esrilangka”
- Cebuano: “Sirilangka”
- Cebuano: “Sri Lanka”
- Central Bikol: “Sri Lanka”
- Central Kurdish: “سریلانکا”
- Chavacano: “Sri Lanka”
- Chechen: “Шри-Ланка”
- Chinese: “Sri Lanka”
- Chinese: “斯國”
- Chinese: “斯里兰卡 / 斯里蘭卡”
- Chinese: “斯里兰卡”
- Chinese: “斯里蘭卡”
- Chinese: “錫蘭”
- Chinese: “锡兰”
- Chuvash: “Шри-Ланка”
- Cornish: “Shri Lanka”
- Corsican: “Sri Lanka”
- Crimean Tatar: “Şri Lanka”
- Croatian: “Šri Lanka”
- Czech: “Cejlon”
- Czech: “Srí Lanka”
- Czech: “Šrí Lanka”
- Czech: “Srílanská demokratická socialistická republika”
- Dagbani: “Sri Lanka”
- Danish: “Sri Lanka”
- Dhivehi: “އޮޅުދޫކަރަ”
- Dimli (individual language): “Sri Lanka”
- Dotyali: “श्रीलंका”
- Dutch: “Democratische Socialistische Republiek Sri Lanka”
- Dutch: “LK”
- Dutch: “LKA”
- Dutch: “Sri Lanka”
- Dzongkha: “ཤྲཱི་ལང་ཀ”
- Dzongkha: “ཤྲཱྀ་ལངཀ་”
- Eastern Mari: “Шри-Ланка”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سريلانكا”
- Esperanto: “Cejlono”
- Esperanto: “Demokratia Socialisma Respubliko Srilanko”
- Esperanto: “Sri-Lanko”
- Esperanto: “Srilanko”
- Estonian: “Sri Lanka Demokraatlik Sotsialistlik Vabariik”
- Estonian: “Sri Lanka”
- Ewe: “Sri Lanka nutome”
- Extremaduran: “Sri Lanka”
- Faroese: “Sri Lanka”
- Fiji Hindi: “Sri Lanka”
- Finnish: “Sri Lanka”
- Finnish: “Sri Lankan demokraattinen sosialistinen tasavalta”
- French: “Ceylan”
- French: “île de Ceylan”
- French: “la République socialiste démocratique de Sri Lanka”
- French: “LK”
- French: “Serendib”
- French: “Sri Lanka”
- French: “Taprobane”
- Fulah: “Siri Lanka”
- Fulah: “Sirlanka”
- Gagauz: “Şri Lanka”
- Gagauz: “Şri-Lanka”
- Galician: “Sri Lanka”
- Ganda: “Sirilanka”
- Georgian: “შრი-ლანკა”
- German: “Sri Lanka”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Sri Lanka”
- Gilaki: “سريلانکا”
- Goan Konkani: “Sri Lanka”
- Goan Konkani: “श्रीलंका”
- Gothic: “𐍃𐍂𐌹-𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌺𐌰”
- Greek: “Σρι Λάνκα”
- Guarani: “Seilãu”
- Guianese Creole French: “Sri Lanka”
- Gujarati: “લંકા”
- Gujarati: “શ્રીલંકા”
- Gujarati: “સિલોન”
- Haitian: “Srilanka”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sri Lanka”
- Hausa: “Siri Lanka”
- Hausa: “Sri Lanka”
- Hawaiian: “Sililanaka”
- Hebrew: “סרי לנקה”
- Hiligaynon: “Esrilangka”
- Hiligaynon: “Sirilangka”
- Hindi: “श्री लंका”
- Hindi: “श्री लङ्का”
- Hindi: “श्रीलंका”
- Hindi: “श्रीलङ्का”
- Hindi: “सीलोन”
- Hungarian: “Ceylon”
- Hungarian: “Srí Lanka-i Demokratikus Szocialista Köztársaság”
- Hungarian: “Sri Lanka”
- Hungarian: “Srí Lanka”
- Icelandic: “Srí Lanka”
- Ido: “Sri Lanka”
- Ido: “Sri-Lanka”
- Igbo: “Sri Lanka”
- Iloko: “Sri Lanka”
- Inari Sami: “Sri Lanka demokratlâš sosialistlâš täsiväldi”
- Inari Sami: “Sri Lanka”
- Indonesian: “Sri Langka”
- Indonesian: “Sri Lanka”
- Interlingua: “Sri Lanka”
- Interlingue: “Sri Lanka”
- Irish: “Srí Lanca”
- Italian: “Ceylon”
- Italian: “Repubblica Democratica Socialista dello Sri Lanka”
- Italian: “Sri Lanka”
- Italian: “Srilanca”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Sri Langka”
- Japanese: “スリ・ランカ”
- Japanese: “スリ・ランカ民主社会主義共和国”
- Japanese: “スリランカ”
- Japanese: “スリランカ民主社会主義共和国”
- Japanese: “セイロン”
- Japanese: “師子国”
- Japanese: “錫”
- Japanese: “錫蘭”
- Javanese: “Cèylon”
- Javanese: “Sri Lanka”
- Kabiyè: “Sriilanka”
- Kabyle: “Sri Lanka”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Sri Lanka”
- Kalaallisut: “Sri Lanka”
- Kalmyk: “Сриланкудин Улс Орн”
- Kannada: “ಶ್ರೀಲಂಕಾ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Ceylon”
- Kara-Kalpak: “LKA”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Shri-Lanka Demokratiyalıq Socialistlik Respublikası”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Shri-Lanka”
- Kara-Kalpak: “SRI”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Цейлон”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Шри-Ланка Демократиялық Социалистлик Республикасы”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Шри-Ланка”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Цейлон”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Шри-Ланка”
- Kashmiri: “سِری لنٛکا”
- Kashmiri: “سِریٖلَنکا”
- Kashubian: “Sri Lanka”
- Kazakh: “Шри-Ланка”
- Khmer: “ស្រីលង្កា”
- Kikuyu: “Sirilanka”
- Kikuyu: “Sri Lanka”
- Kinaray-A: “Esrilëngka”
- Kinaray-A: “Seylan”
- Kinaray-A: “Sirilëngka”
- Kinyarwanda: “Siri Lanka”
- Kirghiz: “Шри-Ланка”
- Komering: “Sri Lanka”
- Komi: “Шри-Ланка”
- Kongo: “Sri Lanka”
- Korean: “스리랑카”
- Kurdish: “Srî Lanka”
- Ladin: “Sri Lanka”
- Ladino: “Sri Lanka”
- Lao: “ສີລັງກາ”
- Lao: “ປະເທດສີລັງກາ”
- Latin: “Srilanca”
- Latin: “Taprobane”
- Latvian: “Šrilanka”
- Lezghian: “Шри-Ланка”
- Ligurian: “Sri Lanka”
- Limburgan: “Sri Lanka”
- Lingala: “Sirilanka”
- Lingala: “Sri Lanka”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Srilanca”
- Literary Chinese: “斯里蘭卡”
- Lithuanian: “Šri Lanka”
- Livvi: “Sri Lanka”
- Lombard: “Sri Lanka”
- Low German: “Sri Lanka”
- Lower Sorbian: “Sri Lanka”
- Luba-Katanga: “Sirilanka”
- Luxembourgish: “Sri Lanka”
- Macedonian: “Шри Ланка”
- Maithili: “श्रीलंका”
- Maithili: “श्रीलङ्का”
- Malagasy: “Sri Lanka”
- Malagasy: “Srilanka”
- Malay: “Seri Langka”
- Malay: “Sri Lanka”
- Malay: “سري لڠکا”
- Malayalam: “ഇലങ്കൈ”
- Malayalam: “ശ്രീലങ്ക”
- Maltese: “is-Sri Lanka”
- Maltese: “Repubblika Demokratika Soċjalista tas-Sri Lanka”
- Maltese: “Sri Lanka”
- Manipuri: “ꯁ꯭ꯔꯤ ꯂꯪꯀꯥ”
- Manx: “Sri Lanka”
- Maori: “Hīraka”
- Maori: “Hiri Rānaka”
- Maori: “Hīroni”
- Marathi: “श्रीलंका”
- Mazanderani: “سری لانکا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Sri Lanka”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ceylon”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sri Lanka”
- Minangkabau: “Sarilangka”
- Mingrelian: “შეი-ლანკაშ დემოკრატიულ-სოციალიატურ რესპუბლიკა”
- Mingrelian: “შრი-ლანკა”
- Mingrelian: “ცეილონი”
- Mon: “သဳရိလင်္ကာ”
- Mongolian: “Шри Ланка”
- Mongolian: “Шри-Ланка”
- Moroccan Arabic: “سري لانكا”
- Nauru: “Sri Lanka”
- Navajo: “Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah Dah Naaʼeełígíí”
- Nepali: “लोकतान्त्रिक समाजवादी गणतन्त्र श्रीलङ्का”
- Nepali: “श्रीलंका”
- Nepali: “श्रीलङ्का”
- Newari: “श्रीलङ्का”
- North Ndebele: “Sri Lanka”
- Northern Frisian: “Ceylon”
- Northern Frisian: “Sri Lanka”
- Northern Sami: “Sri Lanka demokráhtalaš sosialisttalaš dásseváldi”
- Northern Sami: “Sri Lanka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den demokratisk sosialistiske republikken Sri Lanka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sri Lanka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sri Lanka”
- Norwegian: “Sri Lanka”
- Novial: “Sri Lanka”
- Obolo: “Siri Lanka”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sri Lanka”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Déprobane”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Taprabane”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tāprabane”
- Oriya: “ଶ୍ରୀଲଙ୍କା”
- Oriya: “ସିଲୋନ”
- Oromo: “Sirilaankaa”
- Ossetian: “Шри-Ланка”
- Pa'o Karen: “သီရိလင်ႏကာႏခမ်းထီ”
- Pali: “Lanka-dīpa”
- Pali: “श्रीलङ्का”
- Pampanga: “Esrilangka”
- Pampanga: “Esrilangkâ”
- Pampanga: “Sirilangkâ”
- Panjabi: “ਸ੍ਰੀ ਲੰਕਾ”
- Panjabi: “ਸ੍ਰੀਲੰਕਾ”
- Papiamento: “Sri Lanka”
- Pedi: “Sri Lanka”
- Persian: “سری لانکا”
- Persian: “سریلانکا”
- Persian: “سریلانکا”
- Persian: “سریلنکا”
- Picard: “Sri Lanka”
- Piemontese: “Sri Lanka”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Sri Lanka”
- Polish: “Sri Lanka”
- Portuguese: “Ceilao”
- Portuguese: “Ceilão”
- Portuguese: “República Democrática Socialista do Sri Lanka”
- Portuguese: “Seri-Lanca”
- Portuguese: “Sri Lanka”
- Pushto: “سريلانکا”
- Pushto: “سريلنکا”
- Pushto: “سریلانکا”
- Quechua: “Sri Lanka”
- Romanian: “Sri Lanka”
- Romansh: “Sri Lanka”
- Rundi: “Sirilanka”
- Russia Buriat: “Шри Ланка”
- Russian: “Sri Lanka”
- Russian: “Демократическая Социалистическая Республика Шри-Ланка”
- Russian: “Ланкийцы”
- Russian: “Цейлон”
- Russian: “Шри ланка”
- Russian: “Шри Ланка”
- Russian: “Шри-Ланка”
- Rusyn: “Срі Ланка”
- Rusyn: “Шрі Ланка”
- Sakizaya: “Sri lanka”
- Sakizaya: “Sri Lanka”
- Samoan: “Siri Laka”
- Samoan: “Sri Lanka”
- Samogitian: “Šri Lanka”
- Sango: “Sirî-Lanka”
- Sanskrit: “Lanka-dvīpa”
- Sanskrit: “Lanka”
- Sanskrit: “Sīhala-dvīpa”
- Sanskrit: “Tāmaraparnī”
- Sanskrit: “श्रीलङ्का”
- Santali: “ᱥᱨᱤᱞᱚᱝᱠᱟ”
- Sardinian: “Sri Lanka”
- Scots: “Sri Lanka”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sri Lanca”
- Serbian: “Šri Lanka”
- Serbian: “Шри Ланка”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šri Lanka”
- Shan: “မိူင်းသီႇရိလင်းၵႃ”
- Shona: “Sri Lanka”
- Sicilian: “Sri Lanka”
- Silesian: “Sri Lanka”
- Sindhi: “سري لنڪا”
- Sindhi: “سريلنڪا”
- Sinhala: “Lankāva”
- Sinhala: “Prajatantravadi Samajavadi Janarajaya Sri Lanka”
- Sinhala: “ලංකාව”
- Sinhala: “ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදී සමාජවාදී ජනරජය”
- Sinhala: “ශ්රී ලංකාව”
- Skolt Sami: “Sri Lanka demokraattlaž sosialiistlaž tääʹssväʹldd”
- Skolt Sami: “Sri Lanka”
- Slovak: “Srí Lanka”
- Slovak: “Srílanská demokratická socialistická republika”
- Slovenian: “Cejlon”
- Slovenian: “Demokratična socialistična republika Šrilanka”
- Slovenian: “LK”
- Slovenian: “LKA”
- Slovenian: “Šri Lanka”
- Slovenian: “Šrilanka”
- Somali: “Siri Lanka”
- Somali: “Sirilaanka”
- South Azerbaijani: “سری لانکا”
- Spanish: “Ceilán”
- Spanish: “Esrilanca”
- Spanish: “Heladiva”
- Spanish: “Isla Trapobana”
- Spanish: “República Democrática Socialista de Sri Lanka”
- Spanish: “Sri Lanka”
- Spanish: “Trapobana”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵙⵔⵉ ⵍⴰⵏⴽⴰ”
- Sundanese: “Sri Langka”
- Swahili: “Sri Lanka”
- Swati: “Siri Lanka”
- Swedish: “Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka”
- Swedish: “Demokratiska socialistiska republiken Sri Lanka”
- Swedish: “Sri Lanka”
- Swiss German: “Sri Lanka”
- Sylheti: “ꠍꠤꠞꠤ ꠟꠋꠇꠣ”
- Tagalog: “Esrilangka”
- Tagalog: “Sri Lanka”
- Tajik: “Шри-Ланка”
- Talysh: “Šri-Lankə”
- Tamil: “Ilankaic Cananayaka Cocalicak Kutiyarcu”
- Tamil: “இலங்கை சனநாயக சோசலிசக் குடியரசு”
- Tamil: “இலங்கை சனநாயக சோஷலிசக் குடியரசு”
- Tamil: “இலங்கை”
- Tamil: “ஈழம்”
- Tamil: “சிலோன்”
- Taroko: “Sri Lanka”
- Tatar: “Шри-Ланка”
- Telugu: “శ్రీలంక”
- Tetum: “Srilanka”
- Thai: “ประเทศศรีลังกา”
- Thai: “ศรีลังกา”
- Thai: “สาธารณรัฐสังคมนิยมประชาธิปไตยศรีลังกา”
- Tibetan: “ཤྲཱི་ལངྐ་།”
- Tibetan: “སེང་ག་གླིང་།”
- Tigrinya: “ሲሪላንካ”
- Tok Pisin: “Sri Lanka”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sīlangikā”
- Tosk Albanian: “Sri Lanka”
- Tulu: “ಶ್ರೀಲಂಕಾ”
- Tumbuka: “Sri Lanka”
- Tunisian Arabic: “سريلانكا”
- Turkish: “Sri Lanka”
- Turkmen: “Şri-Lanka”
- Udmurt: “Шри-Ланка”
- Uighur: “سرىلانكا”
- Uighur: “سىرىلانكا”
- Ukrainian: “Цейлон”
- Ukrainian: “Шрі Ланка”
- Ukrainian: “Шрі-Ланка”
- Upper Sorbian: “Sri Lanka”
- Urdu: “سری لنکا”
- Uzbek: “Shri lanka”
- Uzbek: “Shri-Lanka”
- Uzbek: “Shri‑Lanka”
- Venetian: “Sri Lanka”
- Venetian: “Srilanca”
- Veps: “Šrilank”
- Vietnamese: “Sri Lanka”
- Vietnamese: “Tích Lan”
- Vietnamese: “Xri Lan-ca (Sri Lanka)”
- Vietnamese: “Xri Lan-ca”
- Vlaams: “Sri Lanka”
- Vlax Romani: “Shri Lanka”
- Volapük: “Sri-Lankän”
- Võro: “Sri Lanka”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sri Lanka”
- Welsh: “Sri Lanca”
- Welsh: “Sri Lanka”
- Western Armenian: “Սրի Լանքա”
- Western Frisian: “Sri Lanka”
- Western Frisian: “Sry Lanka”
- Western Panjabi: “سری لنکا”
- Wolof: “Siri Laanka”
- Wolof: “Siri Lànka”
- Wu Chinese: “斯里兰卡”
- Yakut: “Сри Ланка”
- Yakut: “Шри Ланка”
- Yiddish: “דעמאָקראַטישע סאָציאַליסטישע רעפּובליק פֿון שרילאַנקע”
- Yiddish: “סרי לאנקא”
- Yiddish: “סרי־לאַנקאַ”
- Yoruba: “Siri Lanka”
- Yoruba: “Sri Lanka”
- Yue Chinese: “斯里蘭卡”
- Zeeuws: “Sri Lanka”
- Zhuang: “Sri Lanka”
- Zulu: “i-Sri Lanka”
- Zulu: “Sri Lanka”
- “LK”
- “LKA”
- “ma Lanka”
- “Q854”
- “Sri Lanca”
- “Sri Lanka”
- “Šri Lanka”
- “श्री लंका”
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