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Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 August 1994: D. B. Wijetunga: Minister of Agriculture, Land and Forestry Conservation [25] [26] Salinda Dissanayake: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 October 2000: Chandrika Kumaratunga: Minister of Land Development and Minor Export Agricultural Crops [27] Anuruddha Ratwatte: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 14 September 2001
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 Vijayan Series occur in the eastern and ...
The Sri Lanka montane rain forests represent the montane and submontane moist forests above 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) in the central highlands and in the Knuckles mountain range. [5] Half of Sri Lanka's endemic flowering plants and 51 percent of the endemic vertebrates are restricted to this ecoregion. This ecoregion is inhabited by five strict ...
Sri Lanka has a total area of 65,610 km 2, with 64,740 km 2 of land and 870 km 2 of water, and a coastline that is 1,340 km long. The main island of Sri Lanka has an area of 65,268 km 2 and is the 25th largest island in the world by area. [2] Dozens of offshore islands account for the remaining 342 km 2 of area.
Sri Lanka claims an exclusive economic zone extending 200 nautical miles, which is approximately 6.7 times Sri Lanka's land area. The coastline and adjacent waters support highly productive marine ecosystems such as fringing coral reefs and shallow beds of coastal and estuarine seagrasses. [178]
Mountain ranges of Sri Lanka (5 P) Mountains of Sri Lanka (25 P) P. Peninsulas of Sri Lanka (1 P) W. Waterfalls of Sri Lanka (2 C, 17 P) Wetlands of Sri Lanka (1 C, 5 P)
Sri Lanka continental separated from the south eastern tip of peninsular India by the more than 20 m deep Palk Strait.There had been repeated land connections with India across this strait during successive glacial periods, the last being between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago when the sea level was about 120m below the present level creating a 140 km wide land bridge.
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 9 June 1959: Minister of Agriculture [16] December 1959: Wijeyananda Dahanayake: Minister of Agriculture and Lands [16] M. D. Banda: United National Party: 23 March 1960: 1960: Dudley Senanayake [16] C. P. de Silva: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 23 July 1960: Sirimavo Bandaranaike: Minister of Agriculture, Land, Irrigation ...