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  2. Climate change in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Climate change in Sri Lanka. Visualisation of average annual temperature anomaly in Sri Lanka, 1901 to 2020. Climate change is an important issue in Sri Lanka, and its effects threaten to impact both human and natural systems. Roughly 50 percent of its 22 million citizens live in low-lying coastal areas in the west, south, and south-west of the ...

  3. Geography of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Geography of Sri Lanka. /  7°N 81°E  / 7; 81. Sri Lanka, formerly called Ceylon, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, southeast of the Indian subcontinent, in a strategic location near major sea lanes. [1] The nation has a total area of 65,610 square kilometres (25,330 sq mi), with 64,630 square kilometres (24,950 sq mi) of land and ...

  4. Nairobi - Wikipedia

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    Nairobi (/ n aɪ ˈ r oʊ b i / ny-ROH-bee) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nairobi, which translates to 'place of cool waters', a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper had a population of 4,397,073 in the 2019 census.

  5. 2018 Sri Lankan southwest monsoon floods - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka is the island east of India's southern tip. The southwest monsoon typically peaks during late May to the beginning of June in Sri Lanka, with prevailing winds from the south and southwest, streaming toward the Bay of Bengal. The areas that usually receive the heaviest rain are the south and west of the country, including Kalutara ...

  6. Kenya's weather outlook 'dire' as cyclone nears, president says

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    NAIROBI (Reuters) -Torrential rains that caused widespread flooding and landslides across Kenya in recent weeks, killing at least 210 people, are forecast to worsen over the rest of this month ...

  7. Tropical savanna climate - Wikipedia

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    Tropical savanna climate. Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories Aw (for a dry "winter") and As (for a dry "summer"). The driest month has less than 60 mm (2.4 in) of precipitation and also less than mm of precipitation. [1] : 200–1.

  8. Sri Lankan units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Base of these system of measuring length was the human body. වියත ( Viyatha = Span ) Length of a spread hand. රියන ( Riyana = Cubit ) Length from the elbow to middle finger. බඹ (Bamba = Fathom ) Length of two hands spread. King Nisshankamalla have established milestones called "Gaavutha Kanu" from a Gavu to another.

  9. Cyclone Ockhi - Wikipedia

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    Cyclone Ockhi. Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Ockhi [nb 1] was a strong tropical cyclone that devastated parts of Sri Lanka and India in 2017, and was the most intense tropical cyclone in the Arabian Sea since Cyclone Megh in 2015. The ninth depression, and the third and strongest named storm of the 2017 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Ockhi ...