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About Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka was known as Ceylon before 1972, it is now Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. It is an island country in the South Asian and located at about 31 Kilometers off Southern coast of India. Sri Lanka is home around to 20 million people. It has location in path of the major Sea routes. It is Strategic naval link in between South East Asia and West Asia and it has been center of the Buddhist religion as well as culture from the ancient time. Today,

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History of Sri Lanka

Ancient time of Sri Lanka was most notable and ruled by the monarchs. Island was also infrequent invaded by the South Indian Kingdom that was part of island and was ruled intermittently by Chola dynasty. Island was invaded by Kingdom of Kalinga from Malay Peninsula. From India in 3 rd century Buddhism arrived that brought Bhikkhu Mahinda who believed to have to son of Mauryan emperor name Ashoka. Mission of Mahinda had won over Sinhalese monarch Sinhalese, who embraced propagated, and faith and it throughout Sinhalese population.

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Sri Lanka Crimes

In Both sides of Sri Lanka conflict may have committed as war crimes and suspend fighting up to 180,000 of civilian escape, by High commissioner of United Nations for the human Rights Navi Pillay. He warned that the loss of life could reach at "catastrophic level". Pillay said that government has repeatedly shelled designated for the "no-fire" zones for the civilians and also reports separatist guerrillas that were holding as human shield and had some as tried to flee.

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Sri Lanka Culture

Sports in Sri Lanka

Sports play an important role in Sri Lankan culture. Main sport in Sri Lanka is Volley Ball, after English-men age Cricket is being famous sport in Sri Lanka. Every one in Sri Lanka know that how to pay Cricket. There are many fields of cricket across the island for adult and children to play the sport. After cricket, biggest pastime of Sri Lankan population, is watching this game and matches on television.

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Sri Lanka Hospitals

Teaching Hospital Kandy

It is second largest hospital in Sri Lanka; in year 2007 bed strength of hospital was 2164. Hospital Kandy with its strong links is due to University of the Peradeniya that conducts programs for undergraduate training for university students studying dental science and Medicine. Institute of postgraduate for medicines is attached to university of Colombo,
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Sri Lanka Language

Since diversity of the ethnic groups, some languages that spoken in country is various. Two main language widely used are Sinhala Language spoken by Sinhalese and second is Tamil Language spoken by Tamils in Sri Lanka. Tamil and Sinhala are although from different sources but both of these share common characteristics and have influence from each other. Sinhala, whose origin is discussable, widely accepted that ultimately it is derived from indo-Aryan that is in the turn divided in tow phases of its evolution; Pali language represented old Aryan speech by (2000-800 B.C).

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Sri Lanka Places

Yala National Park

It is a famous national Park, and reserved over 979 km², much of its reserve is parkland and it also contains some part of Jungle, freshwater lakes, beaches, scrubland and rivers. Its latter zone is also punctuated with the enormous rocky outcrops in range of habitats that give the rise to good range of wildfires. Park has world highest Leopards concentration it seeing although largely carnivore and still require some luck.
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Sri Lanka Popular Foods

Sri Lankan cuisine is hot and spicy, inhabitant of island's base food is rice that is consumed with veg, fish based and curry. All dishes in Sri Lanka are cooked on coconut milk based, which are flavored by the use of liberal spices. Sri Lankan like all peoples of coastal region is expert in preparing dishes especially fish base dishes. Sambol, Mallung, Biryani, Lamprais, Plos are most popular in Sri Lanka, as well as several juicy sweetmeats such as Halape, Thalaguli, Kavum, they also like to drink tea and coffee.

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Sri Lanka Population

Sri Lanka country is in Indian Ocean, and was under British rule for long time; it was before gaining its independence in 1948. Population amount of Sri Lanka is 19.7 million with annual growth rate 1.1%. Capital city of Sri Lanka is Colombo, with its tropical climate. Population is very important factor, which lends the better understanding of Geography of Sri Lanka. Populating of Sri Lanka deals with important features of its population. Total population is estimated as 20,962,315 and it is so important to know about population rate or growth which is about 0.982% according to a private census,

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Sri Lanka Weather

Country Lies between the 6-10 of the North Latitude and is Between 80-82 East Longitude. Sri Lanka has Maximus length of about 432 km and Maximum Breath of 224 km, while land area is 65,525 Sq km. Area Excluding Inland Water is 62,336 Sq km. County enjoys the tropical monsoon climate, and has marked with some mountains in Central South part of it. It considerably rises above sea levels and adds amazing variety of the landscapes in island. Sun pours down during the months of summer. As a tropical climate monsoon is always chance of deluge,

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