What the records say
- When
- 1948
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Sri Lanka
- Coordinates
- 7.58° N, 80.70° E
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 7244000
- Area km2
- 65610
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Sri Lanka
Country in South Asia
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It is located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, and is separated from India by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation