Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka ranks 115th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Somalia, Uganda, and Dominican Republic. Memorable people born in present day Sri Lanka include Ranil Wickremesinghe, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and Sirimavo Bandaranaike. Memorable people who died in Sri Lanka include Arthur C. Clarke, Buddhaghosa, and Sirimavo Bandaranaike. Sri Lanka has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures.

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest, India in the northwest, Andaman and The Nicobar Islands in the northwest, and Myanmar through the Bay of Bengal. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital of Sri Lanka, while the largest city, Colombo, is the administrative and judicial capital which is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Kandy is the second-largest urban area and also the capital of the last native kingdom of Sri Lanka. The most spoken language Sinhala, is spoken by the majority of the population. Tamil is also spoken by approximately five million people, making it the second most-spoken language in Sri Lanka. Read more on Wikipedia