Zeylan
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Zeylan | |
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ලංකාව | |
Capital | Kolamba |
Largest City | Kolamba |
Government Type | Constitutional diarchy |
Languages | Sinhalese (official) Dutch (official) Creole Tamil Malayalam |
Currency | Guilder |
Zeylan (Sinhalese: ලංකාව Lankava, Tamil: ஈழம் Ijlam) is a teardrop-shaped island nation in southern Asia. It is a constitutional diarchy, having the Dutch monarch (as a constituent of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) and the Kandyan monarch as joint heads of state.
History
Government and Politics
Demographics
Ethnicity
Sinhala
Tamil
Burghers
Moors
Javanese
Languages
Culture
List of monarchs
See also