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Sri Lanka
Capital: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
- Sri Lanka is an island country in the Indian Ocean, covering about 67,240 square kilometres, with roughly 21.7 million people (2025 estimate).
- Tea arrived in Sri Lanka in 1867, and by 2019 the island ranked fourth among the world's tea producers and third among its exporters.
- Sigiriya is a granite rock about 180 metres high, once a fortress built by King Kashyapa in the late 400s CE, with gardens described as among the oldest landscaped gardens in the world.
- Adam's Peak rises 2,243 metres, and pilgrims climb its thousands of steps, often aiming to reach the summit by sunrise.