Sigiriya, a palace-fortress on a 200 m rock column, was built in the 5th century CE.
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Sri Lanka
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ยท เทเทโเถปเท เถฝเถเถเทเท
Asia
ยท Southern Asia
0Population
65.61Kkmยฒ of land
$3.85KGDP / person
ColomboCapital
- ISO codes
- LK ยท LKA
- Density
- 332 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Sinhala, Tamil
- Currency
- Sri Lankan rupee (LKR)
- Dial code
- +94
- Internet domain
- .lk
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 7.5810ยฐ N, 80.7050ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Sri Lankan
- UN region
- Southern Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $84.01B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 1
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By the numbers
How Sri Lanka stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
58th
of 242 ยท 0.28% of world population
Land area
123rd
of 242 ยท 0.04% of world land
GDP per person
161st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
36th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Sri Lanka
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 21,803,000 people, the 58th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.28 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 65,610 kmยฒ, making it the 123rd largest country here - about 7.1 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 332 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Colombo, at 6.93ยฐ N, 79.86ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 217,000.
Shares land borders with 1 country: India.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Colombo.
The currency is the Sri Lankan rupee (LKR, symbol Rs เถปเท).
Has 2 official languages: Sinhala and Tamil.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Colombo
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UTC+05:30
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Colombo
Colombo
6.9320ยฐ N, 79.8578ยฐ E
217K
2
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Colombo
6.9000ยฐ N, 79.9500ยฐ E
115.83K
3
Kandy
Kandy
7.2800ยฐ N, 80.6700ยฐ E
111.7K
Land neighbours
1 country shares a border with Sri Lanka.