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  2. Korwa people - Wikipedia

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    Korwa tribesmen, 1897. The Korwa people are a Munda, a Scheduled Tribe ethnic group of India. They live mainly on the border between Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.A small number of Korwa are also found in the Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh.

  3. Pahari culture - Wikipedia

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    Pahari culture is influenced by the geography of the region, which consists of hilly terrains, forests, rivers, and remote valleys.The Pahari-speaking communities reside across various ecosystems such as the lush green hills of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand to the rugged terrains of Jammu and Kashmir and northern Pakistan. [5]

  4. Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Topographic map of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka, an island in South Asia shaped as a teardrop or a pear/mango, [167] lies on the Indian Plate, a major tectonic plate that was formerly part of the Indo-Australian Plate. [168] It is in the Indian Ocean southwest of the Bay of Bengal, between latitudes 5° and 10° N, and longitudes 79° and 82° E. [169]

  5. Cartography of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    The cartography of Sri Lanka is the history of the surveying and creation of maps of Sri Lanka. A list of maps of Sri Lanka in chronological order is shown below. Maps

  6. File:Sri Lanka - Location Map (2011) - LKA - UNOCHA.svg

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  7. Geography of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Vedda - Wikipedia

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    The Vedda minority in Sri Lanka may become completely assimilated. [6] Most speak Sinhala instead of their indigenous languages, which are nearing extinction. It has been hypothesized that the Vedda were probably the earliest inhabitants of Sri Lanka and have lived on the island since before the arrival of other groups from the Indian mainland ...

  9. Outline of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    An enlargeable map of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka – island country in the northern Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of the Indian subcontinent in South Asia. Known until 1972 as Ceylon (/sɨˈlɒnˌ seɪ-ˌ siː-/), Sri Lanka ...