sri lanka Capital: kotte Pos.: Surface: 65.610 Kmq 122 Population 2020: 21.413.000 57 Pop. density: 326,37 in./Kmq 28 Pop. growth 12ys:  +1,34 % GDP per capita: 3.768 $ 120 Nominal GDP 2020: 80,677 billions $ 65 PPP per capita: 13.537 $ 91 GDP PPP 2020: 289,870 billions $ 55 Internet TLD:  LK
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. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is its legislative capital, and Colombo is its largest city and financial centre. It is a multinational state, home to diverse cultures, languages, and ethnicities. The Sinhalese are the majority of the nation's population Economy: The country had experienced an annual growth of 6.4 percent from 2003 to 2012, well above its regional peers. This growth was driven by the growth of non-tradable sectors, which the World Bank warned to be both unsustainable and unequitable.  Growth has slowed since then. Sri Lanka was re-classified as a lower middle income nation by the World Bank from a previous upper middle income status. It has met the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving extreme poverty
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