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Sri Lanka is a small island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the southeast coast of India. The island is characterized by a tropical monsoon climate that is divided into the northeast monsoon (December to March) and southwest monsoon (June to October). [1] The terrain is mostly low, flat to rolling fertile plains.
Sri Lankan citizenship. Expiration. 10 years for adults and 3 years / 10 years for minors (below 16 years of age). Sri Lankan passports are issued to citizens of Sri Lanka for the purpose of international travel. The Department of Immigration and Emigration is responsible for issuing Sri Lankan passports.
No national identity card. Acceptable documents for proof of identification may include passports, firearms licences, driving licences, 18+ cards or the new 'Kiwi Access' cards (issued by Hospitality NZ), a SuperGold (senior citizen's) card, birth certificates or a citizenship certificate. Tuvalu: No national identity card. United Kingdom
Sri Lankan nationality law. Sri Lankan nationality law details the conditions in which a person is a national of Sri Lanka. The primary law governing nationality regulations is the Ceylon Citizenship Act, which came into force on 15 November 1948. Any person born in Sri Lanka to a Sri Lankan parent is automatically a citizen by descent.
Sinhalese names usually consists of three parts. The first part is the patronymic name (family name) of the father, ancestor name or 'house name', which often has the suffix ‘-ge’ at the end of it, this is known as the 'Ge' name (ge meaning house in Sinhalese). The second part is the personal name (given name) and the third part is the surname.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake[b] (born 24 November 1968), commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan Marxist politician [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] who is the current president of Sri Lanka. Dissanayake was the first Sri Lankan president to be elected in a second round of vote counting, [8][9] and the second elected president not from Sri ...
The E-National Identity Card (abbreviation: E-NIC) is the identity document in use in Sri Lanka. It is compulsory for all Sri Lankan citizens who are sixteen years of age and older to have a NIC. NICs are issued from the Department for Registration of Persons.
Sri Lanka's population, (1871–2001) Sri Lanka has roughly 22,156,000 people and an annual population growth rate of 0.5%. The birth rate is 13.8 births per 1,000 people, and the death rate is 6.0 deaths per 1,000 people. [270] Population density is highest in western Sri Lanka, especially in and around the capital.