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Sri Lanka information
Summary
| Location: | Southern Asia, island in the Indian Ocean, south of India |
| Population: | 21,128,772
note: since the outbreak of hostilities between the government and armed Tamil separatists in the mid-1980s, several hundred thousand Tamil civilians have fled the island and more than 200,000 Tamils have sought refuge in the West (July 2008 est.) |
| Capital: | name: Colombo
geographic coordinates: 6 56 N, 79 51 E
time difference: UTC+5.5 (10.5 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
note: Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative capital) |
| GDP per capita: | $4,400 (2008 est.) |
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