Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about 31 kilometres off the southern coast of India, a nation with which it shares common culture, language and religion. As a result of its location in the path of major sea routes, Sri Lanka is a strategic naval link between West Asia and South East Asia. It has also been a center of the Buddhist religion and culture from ancient times and is one of the few remaining abodes of Buddhism in South Asia, including Ladakh, Bhutan and the Chittagong Hill Tracts, as well as being a bastion of Hinduism.

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 * Arthur C. Clarke