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Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It is located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, and is separated from India by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. Sri Lanka shares a maritime border with the Maldives to the southwest and India to the northwest, and lies across the Bay of Bengal from Bangladesh and Myanmar to the northeast and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India to the east.
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Sirimavo Bandaranaike1916 – 2000Prime Minister of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) from 1960–65, 1970–77, 1994–2000Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Mahinda Rajapaksab. 1945President of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2015Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Chandrika Kumaratungab. 1945President of Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2005Source: Wikidata (citizenship).jpg/330px-Maithripala_Sirisena_(cropped).jpg)
Maithripala Sirisenab. 1951President of Sri Lanka from 2015 to 2019Source: Wikidata (citizenship)- Ranil Wickremesingheb. 19499th President of Sri Lanka from July 2022 to September 2024Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
M.I.A.b. 1975British singer and rapper (born 1975)Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Jacqueline Fernandezb. 1985Sri Lankan actressSource: Wikidata (citizenship)
Michael Ondaatjeb. 1943Canadian novelist and poet (born 1943)Source: Wikidata (country of birthplace)- Gotabaya Rajapaksab. 1949President of Sri Lanka from 2019 to 2022Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
- Anura Kurankan Dissanayakeb. 1968President of Sri Lanka since 2024Source: Wikidata (citizenship)
Everything that happened
- 1942Indian Ocean raidIndian OceanThe Indian Ocean raid (Operation C, the Third Mobile Operation in the Indian Ocean and the Battle of Ceylon in Japanese) was a sortie of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from 31 March to 10 April 1942. Japanese aircraft carriers (Admiral Chūichi Nagumo) struck Allied shipping, naval bases and airfields around British Ceylon but failed to find most of the Eastern Fleet.Source: Wikidata (country)
- 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamiIndonesiaOn 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a Mw 9.2–9.3 earthquake struck with its epicenter off the west coast of Aceh, in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known in the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, was caused by a rupture along the fault boundary between the Burma plate and the Indian plate, and reached a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX in some…Source: Wikidata (country)
- 2020COVID-19 pandemicWorldwideA new coronavirus spreads worldwide. Lockdowns, remote work and fast-developed vaccines reshape daily life.Source: Wikidata (country)
- c. 2020Gen Z protestsworldDuring the 2020s, members of Generation Z have participated in youth-led protests. The 2024 protests in Bangladesh are widely cited as the first successful Gen Z revolution, inspiring other Gen Z–led protests, including those in Nepal, Indonesia, Philippines, Timor-Leste, Maldives, Mongolia, Madagascar, Morocco, Serbia, India, Albania, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)