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Sri Lanka Geography Facts. Its just 353km long from north to south and only 183km at its widest. Southern Asia island in the Indian Ocean south of India. As Ceylon it became independent in 1948. Sri Lanka had some unexpected neighbors in the past.
Sri Lanka has one of the worlds least powerful passports. Colombo is the commercial capital and the largest city. 300 million years ago when the mega-continent Pangea connected all of the current continents Sri Lanka was actually joined to Antarctica. It is located between latitudes 555 and 951 N and longitudes 7941 and 8153 E and has a maximum length of 268 miles 432. It is positioned in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal between latitudes 5 and 10N and longitudes 79 and 82E. Sri Lanka is somewhat pear-shaped.
Sri Lanka used to be called Ceylon which is a transliteration of Ceilao the name of the country under the islands first colonial rulers Portugal.
1000 and Polonnaruwa from about 1070 to 1200. Its name was changed to Sri Lanka in 1972. The flatter regions are the areas where most of Sri Lankas agriculture takes place aside from coconut farms along the coast. Sri Lanka is somewhat pear-shaped. As observed on the physical map above most of Sri Lanka is low-lying and is ringed by almost endless sandy beaches and small irregular lagoons. 65610 sq km.