The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (hereinafter referred to as Sri Lanka, with Colombo as its capital) is an island country located in the Indian Ocean to the south of the South Asian subcontinent, facing India across the Pok Strait to the northwest. Is a tropical monsoon climate, close to the equator, all the year as summer, no four seasons. The terrain is high in the middle mountains and low around the coastal plain, with a total area of 65610 square kilometers.
Sri Lanka has a total population of 21.29 million as of 2021. 2,500 years ago, Aryan people from northern India migrated to Ceylon to establish the Sinhalese Dynasty. In 247 BC, Ashoka of the Kongak Dynasty of India sent his son to the island to promote Buddhism, and since then the Sinhalese people abandoned Brahmanism and converted to Buddhism. Tamils from South India also began to migrate and settle on Ceylon around the 2nd century BC. From the 5th to the 16th centuries, there were wars between the Sinhalese and Tamil kingdoms on the island. Since the 16th century it has been ruled by the Portuguese and then the Dutch.
It became a British colony in the late 18th century. It gained independence in February 1948 and was named Ceylon. On 22 May 1972 it was renamed the Republic of Sri Lanka. It changed its name to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on 16 August 1978. [5] Sri Lanka is a founding member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and a member of the Commonwealth, the G77, the Non-Aligned Movement and the United Nations.
Its capital, Colombo, is known as the "Crossroads of the East". Mainly plantation economy, weak industrial base, mainly agricultural products and clothing processing industry. In 2020, Sri Lanka's GDP was $80.7 billion. On June 14, 2022, the Sri Lankan government announced the introduction of a four-day workweek for public sector workers in response to severe food and fuel shortages.
