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Pronounced "shrilanka," the country Sri Lanka is an island nation near India (only about 20 miles off India's southern tip). Once widely known as Ceylon (up to 1972), the country's official name today is the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. Lanka, from the Sanskrit, was the most ancient name of the island, and the word Sri preceding it means "sacred" or "beautiful."

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