SRI LANKA
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Context
- Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is aggravating rapidly, putting citizens through enormous hardship.
About
- Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, island country lying in the Indian Ocean. It is located between latitudes 5°55′ and 9°51′ N and longitudes 79°41′ and 81°53′ E
- An island country in South Asia it lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, and southeast of the Arabian Sea; it is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
- Sri Lanka shares a maritime border with India and the Maldives.
- The island consists mostly of flat to rolling coastal plains, with mountains rising only in the south-central part.
- Sri Lanka has 103 rivers. The longest of these is the Mahaweli River.
- Sri Lanka's mangrove ecosystem spans over 7,000 hectares and played a vital role in buffering the force of the waves in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
- The island is rich in minerals such as ilmenite, feldspar, graphite, silica, kaolin, mica and thorium.
- The climate is tropical and warm, because of moderating effects of ocean winds.
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