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Border crossings of Sri Lanka (1 C) I. India–Sri Lanka border (3 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Borders of Sri Lanka" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of ...
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 .
Eastern South Asia is a cradle of South Asian civilization. Historical states in the region include those recorded in Indian epics such as the Mahabharata, including ancient Nepal, Vanga, and Pundra; the Greek and Roman recorded kingdom of Gangaridai; [5] major Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms including Kikata, Videha, Vṛji, Magadha, Nanda, Mauryan, Anga, Kalinga, Kamarupa, Samatata, Kanva, Gupta ...
East Bengal Express, East Bengal Mail [1] Petrapole, West Bengal: Benapole: Active Bandhan Express and freight trains: Barisal Express [1] Singhabad, West Bengal: Rohanpur: Active Freight trains only [1] Radhikapur, West Bengal: Biral: Active Freight trains only [1] Haldibari, West Bengal: Chilahati: Active Mitali Express [1] Changrabandha ...
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, 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 .
On the north there is the Kaliodai river, on the south Akkaraipattu D.S. Office Boundary and drainage road. On the east Bay of Bengal, on the west a vast stretch of Paddy Lands and the eastern boundaries of Sammanthurai, Irakkaman and Damana Divisional Secretariat.
Sri Lanka The Palk Strait ( Tamil : பாக்கு நீரிணை Pākku Nīriṇai , Sinhala : පෝක් සමුද්ර සන්ධිය Pok Samudra Sandhiya ) is a strait between the Tamil Nadu state of India and the Jaffna District of the Northern Province of the island nation of Sri Lanka .
More than 90% of Sri Lanka's surface lies on Precambrian strata, some of it dating back 2 billion years. [6] The granulite facies rocks of the Highland Series (gneisses, sillimanite-graphite gneisses, quartzite, marbles, and some charnockites) make up most of the island and the amphibolite facies gneisses, granites, and granitic gneisses of the Vinjayan Series occur in the eastern and ...