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  2. Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka, [ a ] historically known as Ceylon, [ b ] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the ...

  3. Prostitution in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Prostitution is not as widespread in Sri Lanka as in some neighbouring countries. [4] It is estimated that there are 40,000 prostitutes (known as "ගණිකාව" (Ganikawa)) [5] in the country, [6] and nearly half of them operate in Colombo. [7] Child Sex tourism [4][8] and human trafficking [9] are problems in Sri Lanka.

  4. List of Sri Lankan people - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of lists of notable individuals from Sri Lanka. Academics. Activists and heroes National Heroes of Sri Lanka; Sri Lankan independence activist ...

  5. Women in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Women in Sri Lanka make up to 52.09% of the population according to the 2012 census of Sri Lanka. [7] Sri Lankan women have contributed greatly to the country's development, in many areas. Historically, a masculine bias has dominated Sri Lankan culture , and they are allowed to vote in election since 1931 . [ 8 ]

  6. Sinhalese people - Wikipedia

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    The Sinhalese people (Sinhala: සිංහල ජනතාව, romanized: Sinhala Janathāva), also known as the Sinhalese or Sinhala people are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group native to the island of Sri Lanka. [15][16] They are the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, constituting about 75% of the Sri Lankan population and number more ...

  7. Social class in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Social class in Sri Lanka is often described as casteless, though caste is still found on the island in both a symbolic and a practical sense. Caste is also used in an analogous sense to refer to the new social class divisions that have appeared in recent decades. The combination of ethnic nationalist movements that saw caste as an island-wide ...

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