Sri Lanka

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Human Rights Watch

World Report 2024: Sri Lanka (hrw.org) Regressive government policies and inadequate social protection left many Sri Lankans at risk from the worst effects of the country’s economic crisis.

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Indian Ocean

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OpenStreetMap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/536807

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The Library of Babel (Wikipedia) “The Library of Babel” (Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set.

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Clarke emigrated to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1956, to pursue his interest in scuba diving. That year, he discovered the underwater ruins of the ancient original Koneswaram Temple in Trincomalee.

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Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q854

Wikipedia

Sri Lanka (Wikipedia) 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. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest and India in the northwest.