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Capital: colombo; note - sri jayewardenepura kotte is the legislative capital
Country name
: conventional long form: democratic socialist republic of sri lanka conventional short form: sri lanka former: serendib. ceylon
National holiday: independence day. 4 february (1948)
Government type
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republic
Administrative divisions: 8 provinces; central. north central. north eastern. north western. sabaragamuwa. southern. uva. western; note - north eastern province may have been divided in two - northern and eastern |
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Independence:
4 february 1948 (from uk)
Political parties and leaders: all ceylon tamil congress or actc [kumarguruparam]; ceylon workers congress or cwc [arumugam thondaman]; communist party or cp [d. gunasekera]; democratic united national (lalith) front or dunlf [shrimani atulathmudali]; eelam people's democratic party or epdp [douglas devananda]; eelam people's revolutionary liberation front or eprlf [suresh premachandran]; janatha vimukthi perumuna or jvp [somawansa amarasinghe]; national heritage party or jhu [tilak karunaratne]; national unity alliance or nua [ferial ashraff]; people's liberation organization of tamil eelam or plote [leader na]; sihala urumaya or su [leader na]; sri lanka freedom party or slfp [chandrika bandaranaike kumaratunga]; sri lanka muslim congress or slmc [rauff hakeem]; sri lanka progressive front or slpf [p. nelson perera]; tamil eelam liberation organization or telo [sabaratnam]; tamil national alliance or tna [r. sampanthan]; tamil united liberation front or tulf [v. anandasangaree]; united national party or unp [ranil wickremasinghe]; up-country people's front or upf [p. chandrasekaran]; several ethnic tamil and muslim parties. represented in either parliament or provincial councils
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Political pressure groups and leaders:
buddhist clergy; labor unions; liberation tigers of tamil eelam or ltte [velupillai prabhakaran](insurgent group fighting for a separate state); radical chauvinist sinhalese groups such as the national movement against terrorism; sinhalese buddhist lay groups
International organization participation
: asdb. c. cp. fao. g-15. g-24. g-77. iaea. ibrd. icao. icc. icftu. icrm. ida. ifad. ifc. ifrcs. iho. ilo. imf. imo. interpol. ioc. iom. iso. itu. miga. minurso. minustah. monuc. nam. oas (observer). onub. opcw. pca. saarc. sacep. un. unctad. unesco. unido. upu. wcl. wco. wftu. who. wipo. wmo. wtoo. wto
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