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= // Sri Lanka // = Sri Lanka Flag Meaning The green stripe represents Sri Lanka's minority Muslims and the orange stripe the minority Hindu Tamils. The yellow represents Buddhism and the crimson stands for a long life. The golden lion is an ancient symbol of the people and the sword is a symbol of authority. The pipul tree leaves are a Buddhist symbol and come from the tree, under which Gautama is said to have received enlightenment and become Buddha. Individually the leaves represent love, compassion, sympathy and equanimity. ( []  )

Sri Lanka is a small country; it is not much bigger than West Virginia. It is located in the Eastern Hemisphere; and can be found on the continent of Asia. Its capitol is Colombo. For its size Sri Lanka is vastly populated; with a population of 21,324,791. Just as a comparison we know that it is not much bigger than West Virginia, the population of West Virginia is only 1,808,344. There are 19,516,447 more people in Sri Lanka then in West Virginia.

Sri Lanka has some mountains, well one that I could find; its name is Pidurutalagala. Even more surprising is that there are no rivers or streams, lakes or waterfalls that I could find in Sri Lanka.

Its main imports are textile fabrics, petroleum, and foodstuffs. It exports are diamonds, emeralds, and rubies.

The official language is Sinhala. I just spent about 5 minutes online trying to find a place where I could translate my name to Sinhala and could not find a single site.

I found out that Sri Lanka has no “official religion” but 69.1% of the people there are Buddhist. I would say that is pretty much as close as official as you can get.

One of its major problems that Sri Lanka has is that from all the civil war there are tons of refugees. These are people with no where to go, no where to live. It is horrible. Another huge problem they have is the trafficking of people. People are not some kind of object and should not be treated as such.

The three places I think you would like to visit some time in Sri Lanka are Pidfuruthalagala, Trincomalee, and Galle.

They were freeded on 2/4/1948. They do have a constitution, and it was adopted on 8/16/1978, it was then certified on 8/31/1978, and amended on 12/20/2000.

Three of the Leaders are Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (11/21/05) he has the cermonial title of Prime Minister. Mahinda Rajapaksa (11/19/05) he is the head of state and President. Finally there is a cabinet that is appointed by the president and prime minister.

It is Slightly larger than West Virginia. The only disasters it faces are cyclones and tornadoes, where as the USA also faces earth quakes. It has a republic government instead of democracy. It is on the other side of the world. include component="comments" page="johncolton" limit="25"