Don Samantha, Asia Commune Sri Lanka is a small island in the Indian Ocean located southeast of India. Its surface area is 65,610 km2. The country has a population of 22.2 million. The languages spoken there are mainly Sinhalese and Tamil. The English language has also been used there since the period of the British colonial empire. The country is multi-confessional: there are Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and Christians. Benefiting from India’s struggle for independence, Sri Lanka was liberated from British colonization on February 4, 1948. From that date until the…
