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Sri Lanka is a humid tropical island lying in the South Asian region, southwest of the Indian peninsula, in the Indian Ocean, between latitudes 5^o 55' and 9^o 51' N and longitudes 79^o 41' - 81^o 54' E. During the late Miocene period, a section of the Tethys sea (the existing Palk strait and Gulf of Mannar) detached the extreme portion of mainland India and turned Sri Lanka into an island. The island is 65,610 km² in area, of which 64,742 km² is land and the remainder is inland water...