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The earlier name of the State of Democratic Sosialist Republic of Sri Lanka was Free Sovereign and Idependent Republic of Sri Lanka while the former one was Ceylon.

Today's capital city is Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte and the largest city is Colombo. The population is 19.668.ooo.

Sri Lanka is located 31 kilometers south of India and it is found that there was human presence on the island since the paleolithic period

Ceylon Sri Lanka has had many names.One that I can recall was Serendep.

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7y ago

Serendib, Ceylon

there were many other names too.

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14y ago

Sri Lanka was formerly known as Ceylon. Ceylon became the republic of Sri Lanka.

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8y ago

It was known as the "Kingdom of Sinhalaya," but in the Colonial Era, the British called the land "Ceylon," which is the English way of pronouncing Sinhalaya. It was later renamed Sri Lanka.

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14y ago

One of the earlier names of Sri Lanka are Ceylon & Taprobana.

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8y ago

It is srilanka. But we call it ceylon in the past.

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9y ago

Sri Lanka was introduced as Ceylon while it was subject to British Empire.

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Ceylon

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Ceylon

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Ceylon

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