{"id":8882,"date":"2021-11-13T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/?p=8882"},"modified":"2021-11-13T14:18:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T22:18:30","slug":"sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sri Lanka, formerly known as\u00a0Ceylon, and officially the\u00a0Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an\u00a0island country<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0South Asia<\/a>. It lies in the\u00a0Indian Ocean<\/a>, southwest of the\u00a0Bay of Bengal<\/a>, and southeast of the\u00a0Arabian Sea<\/a>; it is separated from the\u00a0Indian subcontinent<\/a>\u00a0by the\u00a0Gulf of Mannar<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Palk Strait<\/a>, but shares a\u00a0maritime border<\/a>\u00a0with the\u00a0Indian state<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Tamil Nadu<\/a>.\u00a0Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte<\/a>\u00a0is its legislative capital, and\u00a0Colombo<\/a>\u00a0is its\u00a0largest city<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0financial center<\/a>.<\/p>\n