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Sri Lanka has been referred as the ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’. The land area is 65,610 sq.Km. It is
bigger than eleven indian state i.e. Goa (3,814 sq.Km.), Haryana (44,212 sq.Km.), Himachal (55,673
sq.Km.), Kerala (38,863 sq.Km.), Manipur (22,327 sq.Km.), Meghalaya (22,429 sq.Km.), Mizoram (21,081
sq.Km.), Nagaland (16,579 sq.Km.), Punjab (50,362 sq.Km.), Sikkim (7,098 sq.Km.) and Tripura (10,486
sq.Km.). Sri Lanka is almost half of the size of Tamilnadu and one-fifth of the size of Maharashtra. It is a
surrounded by sea. The climate of this island is tropical and the temperature of its different areas varies
from 10`C to 32`C. Commercial capital is Colombo and Political administrative capital is Sri
Jayewardenepura. The population is 18.8 Mn., and the population growth rate is 1.4%. Literacy rate is
92.1%, which is higher than that of Kerela (69.2%).