Sri Lanka is a republic and a unitary state which is governed by a semi-presidential system with its official seat of government in Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte, the capital.

Transportation in Sri Lanka is based mainly on the road network which is centered on Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo.

* Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka

* Dhappula III becomes king of Sri Lanka, making Anuradhapura the capital city.

* Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte the administrative capital of Sri Lanka.

There is a theory proposed by Sinhalese nationalists that points to the southern part of Sri Lanka as the capital of Ravana, hence the name Ruhuna came to existence.

* Sri Lanka: Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is the official capital and the location of the parliament, while the former capital, Colombo, is now designated as the " commercial capital ".

After a brief visit to the capital Colombo, at the request of the Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga, Jagland agreed to take a role in the peace process of Sri Lanka between the Sri Lankan Government and the Tamil Tiger.

Lanka ( Sanskrit: ल ं क ा Sri lankā meaning " respected island ", Sinhala: ල ං ක ා ප ු ර ( Langkapura ), Malay: Langkapuri, Tamil: Ilankai, Javanese and Indonesian: Alengka or Ngalengka ) is the name given in Hindu mythology to the island fortress capital of the legendary king Ravana in the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

Ravana's Lanka, and its capital Lankapuri, are described in a manner that seems super-human even by modern-day standards.

The island had a large mountain range known as the Trikuta Mountain, atop which was situated Ravana's capital of Lanka, at the center of which in turn stood his citadel.

A recent study of microenterpreneurs from Sri Lanka published by the World Bank found that the return on capital for male-owned businesses ( half of the sample ) averaged 11 %, whereas the return for women-owned businesses was 0 % or slightly negative.

* Colombo, Sri Lanka – May 16 – An Batticaloa-based employee of the Norwegian Refugee Council is abducted while visiting the capital and disappears, presumed dead.

Galle is the capital and the largest city of Southern Province, Sri Lanka and it lies in Galle District.

* In Sri Lanka, Arpico Supercentres have few around the capital city, Colombo.

In the forest, Sita is abducted by Ravana, the king of raksasas and imprisoned in Lanka, his capital.

Currently there is no capital gains tax in Sri Lanka.

It is also the administrative capital of Eastern Province, Sri Lanka.

Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte (, ), also known as Kotte ක ෝ ට ් ට ේ / க ோ ட ் ட ை, is the parliament capital of Sri Lanka.

) Also in 2003, the IFC bought 15 % of the bank's share capital from Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation.

He dispatched a naval expedition and occupied Malaya and Sri Lanka and established Kanchipuram as his capital.

Katunayake ( in Sinhala, in Tamil ), is a town, situated on the west coast of the island of Sri Lanka near Negombo city and close to the commercial capital of Colombo city.

Irish historian James Emerson Tennent theorised Galle, a southern city in Sri Lanka, was the ancient seaport of Tarshish, from which King Solomon is said to have drawn ivory, peacocks and other valuables.

Archaeological evidence for the beginnings of the Iron age in Sri Lanka is found at Anuradhapura, where a large city – settlement was founded before 900 BC.

Vijaya and his followers were said to have arrived in Sri Lanka after being exiled from the city of Sinhapura in Kalinga ( Modern day Orissa ), East India.

* Kalinga Magha from Kalinga Province in India lands in Sri Lanka with a force of 24, 000 men, to capture the city of Polonnaruwa and depose its King, Parakrama Pandya.

* The Dutch capture the city of Colombo in Sri Lanka.

* Richmond College ( Sri Lanka ), Famous school in city of Galle

English historian James Emerson Tennent also theorized Galle, a southern city in Sri Lanka, was the ancient seaport of Tarshish from which King Solomon is said to have drawn ivory, peacocks and other valuables.

He then set his sights on capturing the island city of Lanka.

Lanka was an idyllic city, created by the celestial architect Vishwakarma for Siva and Acquiered by kubera from siva as boon, the treasurer of the gods.

The scriptures describe that Kubera once ruled Lanka, but was overthrown by his demon stepbrother Ravana, later settling in the city of Alaka in the Himalayas.

Kubera then ruled in the golden city of Lanka, identified with modern-day Sri Lanka.

* 100-First Christians are reported in Monaco, Algeria and Sri Lanka ; a missionary goes to Arbela, a sacred city of the Assyrians that the Christian church is katholikos (" universal ")

* According to an ancient Sri Lankan source, the Mahavamsa, Greek monks seem to have been active proselytizers of Buddhism during the time of Menander: the Yona ( Greek ) Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from " Alasandra " ( thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus, the city founded by Alexander the Great, near today ’ s Kabul ) with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, during the 2nd century BC:

Expansion led to the opening of the Kuala Lumpur city campus in 1997, followed by campuses in Karachi, Pakistan ( 1998 ), Colombo, Sri Lanka ( 2000 ), Lahore, Pakistan ( 2000 ), Panipat, India ( 2001 ) and Perth, Australia ( 2004 ).

* June 4 – In Operation Poomalai, five Indian Air Force Antonov An-32 ( NATO reporting name " Cline ") transport aircraft airdrop supplies by parachute into the city of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, to aid Tamil Tiger rebels who have been besieged there by Sri Lankan government forces during the Sri Lankan Civil War.

He falls asleep as he journeys through the darkness and awakens in the city of the king of Serendib ( Ceylon, Sri Lanka ), " diamonds are in its rivers and pearls are in its valleys ".

* Kandy, Sri Lanka ( February 27, 1967 ): sister city

The original Wat Mahathat at Nakhon Si Thammarat ( a Srivijayan city ) was subsequently encased by a larger Sri Lanka styled building.

Galle (;) ( pronounced as one syllable in English, " Gaul ", and as two in Sinhalese, ) is a major city in Sri Lanka, situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, 119 km from Colombo.

After the convoy was blocked by the Sri Lanka Navy, India instead chose to airdrop supplies to the besieged city in a mission codenamed Operation Poomalai.