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Sri Lanka (Ceylon),
is a small island in the Indian ocean of 65,000 square kilometers.
Despite being so small the country has a wide range of geographic
features and is rich in natural beauty.
Large parts of Sri Lanka is covered in tropical forests, with
hundreds of rivers flowing through them, often cascading in
awesome waterfalls.
It's easy to go on and on about the natural beauty of Sri Lanka,
this is not the place for it but the travel page is!
Climate
The southern and western regions have only two seasons, wet
and wetter. Despite being a tropical island some parts of the
country can almost be mistaken for deserts. Other regions experience
rainy and dry seasons. The dry zone looks really wonderful just
as the rains start to ease.
People
Most of the The country's 18.5 million population speak Sinhala,
Tamil or English. Sinhala is the most widely spoken language
and the Sinhala people make up the largest ethnic group. Interestingly
this language is not spoken anywhere else in the world, other
than by a few traders in Chennai India!.
A good twenty percent of the population lives in the westen
province which is the home of capital Colombo. (Strictly speaking
Sri Jayawardanapura is the political capital of Sri Lanka and
Colombo the Commercial center. But Sri Jayawardanapura is a
miniature city within Colombo).
Business and Economy
The economy though battered and bruised by decades of mismanagement
is finally showing signs of recovery. Each new government seems
to manage the economy worse than the previous one. Thankfully
the trend seems to have been changed the last time around.
