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Sri Lanka
| Location |
Indian Ocean, S of India |
| Latitude and longitude |
7 00 N, 81 00 E |
| Sovereignty |
Independent |
| United Nations member? |
Yes |
| Political status notes |
Officially, "Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri
Lanka"; formerly known as Ceylon |
| Population |
19,408,635 |
| Census notes |
est. July 2001 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
65,525 |
| Capital |
Colombo; Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative) |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| The
Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka,
from the Government of Sri Lanka |
| The
Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka,
from the Sri Lanka Parliament |
| The
Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist
Republic of Sri Lanka (2001), from the Sri Lanka Parliament |
| Selected Constitutional Documents,
1833-1931, from the Sri Lanka Parliament, via the Internet
Archive |
| Selected Constitutional Documents,
1946-1971, from the Sri Lanka Parliament, via the Internet
Archive |
Other legal documents online
|
Links to laws, court decisions, and other legal materials
at the Sri Lanka
Ministry of Justice, Law Reform and National Integration and at LawNet,
Sri Lanka's Legal Information Network
|
| Agreement on a
Ceasefire between the Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(2002), from the United States Institute of Peace (PDF 61K) |
| The
Constitution of 1972, from the Sri Lanka Parliament (PDF) |
| The
Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (in
Sinhala and Tamil; issues prior to March 2002 also in English; issues
are in PDF format) |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Fishery
Country Profile--Sri Lanka, from the Food and Agriculture
Organization |
| Government of Sri
Lanka |
| Independent
States in the World, Office of the Geographer and Global Issues,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State,
Washington, D.C. |
| Legal
Profiles: Sri Lanka, from the Islamic family law study by the
Emory University School of Law |
| Sri
Lanka, Background Notes, from the U.S. Department of State (2003) |
| Sri
Lanka, U.S. Library of Congress Country Study (1988) |
| Sri
Lanka Data Profile, from the World Bank Group |
| Sri Lanka
Department of Census and Statistics |
| Sri Lanka
Parliament |
| States
of Emergency Database: Sri Lanka, from the Human Rights Center
at the Queens University School of Law, Belfast, Northern Ireland
(archived resources) |
| United Kingdom, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Country
Profile: Sri Lanka |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
Selected articles on law and political status
|
| K. Alan Kronstadt & Bruce Vaughn, Sri
Lanka:
Background and U.S. Relations
(U.S. Congressional
Research Service Report to Congress 2009) (PDF 376K) |
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