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  2. Sinhalese New Year - Wikipedia

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    Sinhalese New Year, generally known as Aluth Avurudda ( Sinhala: අලුත් අවුරුද්ද) in Sri Lanka, is a Sri Lankan holiday that celebrates the traditional New Year of the Sinhalese people and Tamil population of Sri Lanka. It is a major anniversary celebrated by not only the Sinhalese and Tamil people but by most Sri Lankans.

  3. Susanthika Jayasinghe - Wikipedia

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    Deshabandu Kameradin Susanthika Jayasinghe [2] ( Sinhala: සුසන්තිකා ජයසිංහ; Tamil: சுசந்திகா ஜயசிங்ஹ, born December 17, 1975) is a Sri Lankan retired sprinter, who specialised in the 100 and 200 metres. [3] [4] She won the Olympic silver medal for the 200m event in the 2000 Summer ...

  4. Iceland - Wikipedia

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    Iceland ( Icelandic: Ísland, pronounced [ˈistlant] ⓘ) [d] is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is linked culturally and politically with Europe and is the region's most sparsely populated country. [12] Its capital and largest city is ...

  5. Coefficient of variation - Wikipedia

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    Its standard deviation is 32.9 and its average is 27.9, giving a coefficient of variation of 32.9 / 27.9 = 1.18 In these examples, we will take the values given as the entire population of values . The data set [100, 100, 100] has a population standard deviation of 0 and a coefficient of variation of 0 / 100 = 0

  6. Bengal tiger - Wikipedia

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    Bengal tiger. Range of Bengal tiger in red. The Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies and the nominate tiger subspecies. [1] It ranks among the biggest wild cats alive today. [2] [3] It is considered to belong to the world's charismatic megafauna.

  7. Madrid - Wikipedia

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    Website. https://madrid.es. Madrid ( / məˈdrɪd / mə-DRID, Spanish: [maˈðɾið] ⓘ) [n. 1] is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million [8] inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan ...

  8. Rice production in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Rice production or Paddy production is one of the main productions and staple foods in Sri Lanka. It cultivates in all districts of Sri Lanka during two monsoon seasons. It is estimated that about 708,000 ha (1,750,000 acres) of land uses for paddy. [1] The seasons are called Maha season and Yala season. (Literally, Sinhala word Maha means ...

  9. Education in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Most of the schools in Sri Lanka are maintained by the government as a part of the free education. Currently (as of 2021) there are 10,155 government schools (373 national schools and 9,782 provincial schools) [18] with a student population of 4.2 million and 235,924 teachers, 736 Pirivenas and also 104 private schools with 127,968 students.