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Asia Sri Lanka

Guide to Sri Lanka ancestry, family history and genealogy parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Sri Lanka (/sriːˈlɑːŋkə, -ˈlæŋkə/ or Listeni/ʃriː-/;[6][7] śrī laṃkāva, ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island in the northern Indian Ocean off the coast of South East India in South Asia. Until 1972 the country was known as Ceylon (/sɨˈlɒnˌ seɪ-ˌ siː-/), Sri Lanka has maritime borders with India to the northwest and the Maldives to the southwest.