Top 10 Interesting Facts About Srilanka
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Welcome to Countries Facts So Today I'm talking about top 10 interesting Facts about srilanka so srilanka our country an island that is just south of india and it may look small on the map but it's actually one mighty beast hey everybody what's going here welcome to Countries Facts and this website where we teach you everything about everything now today we're going to talk about a really interesting country called Srilanka why because well first of all you guys have been asking for this Article like crazy people like Afrin Marzu curries kur thei jhalak Dikhhla depression and many more of you guys like you guys went nuts in the comments I'm serious you just kept asking for more so that's it we're gonna get right into this Article but before we do here's our question of the day and that is what country would you like to move to and live in and why me I love living up here in Canada I know a lot of you guys have been asking us to do a fact on Canada but we're just not ready yet so let's start off talking about imports and exports of Srilanka.
1 Srilanka now it's interesting to know that it exports eleven point five billion dollars in goods most of it being non knitted woman suits or even women's undergarments however the biggest export is twelve percent and that is tea as a matter of fact tea is so popular from Sri Lanka that it is the largest exporter of tea in the entire world yeah I'm sorry Boston and I'm sorry China you guys got nothing but let's bump over to its imports because well it's a little different than at exports first of all their imports equal twenty one point four billion dollars and it is progressively growing but the biggest being refined.
2 Petroleum being around twelve percent but it's also fascinating to know that a line percent of that is planes helicopters and spacecraft yes Rebecca has a lot of waterfalls as a matter of fact most of its power is a hydroelectric that it's been said.
3 Srilanka has the biggest waterfall density but fifty-eight of those waterfalls are over ten meters high the Bambara Kanda Falls being the tallest coming in at 263 meters and it is one beautiful Falls I mean this is a place that I would love to go check out this like has also got some pretty interesting names first of all it's called the teardrop of India I mean look at it even looks like a teardrop but it's also known as the pearl of the Indian Ocean.
4 Indian Ocean probably because not only is it a beautiful place but it's got a lot of really amazing beaches like you telling me you don't want to spend a day on that beach yeah I know you know back in 2012 they did a census and they found they have over 20 million people which is pretty tight for a landmass sixty five thousand six hundred and ten kilometers squared.
5 Srilanka also had the world's first female prime minister this is pseudo Malvo Bandra Nike now she was in office for such a long time she definitely defeats any American president now one point sri lanka was known as Ceylon and this was when it was under the control of the British Empire now in her first term serum Avvo she was Prime Minister on July 21st 1969 and tell March 25th 1965 now her second time coming in was May 29th 1970 and I went all the way till May 27 1972 but her position became abolished because the British pretty much pulled out and that is when Ceylon.
6 Srilanka after that she became prime minister of Sri Lanka and remained it until 1977 now she did do a third run in 1994 and ended in 2000 that is a long time for somebody to be in charge I mean that is that's a lot of terms that Sri Lanka has 11 universities and because of that Sri Lanka has the highest literacy rate in all of South Asia according to a census done in 2010 98.1 percent of its country is considered literate now when it comes to communication the Sri Lanka Broadcasting.
7 Srilanka Broadcasting Company is the oldest radio station in all of Asia he was started by Edward Harper in 1923 originally started off as a test run but eventually it became a radio Cylon now the station is broad casted all over the world to places like Europe and South Asia they broadcast in single E's Tamil and Hindi and they are still alive today Sri Lanka also has one of the highest road densities in the entire world with over a hundred thousand kilometers of road.
8 They do have a train system which was left over from the British rule the primary form of transportation is via Road with buses being the form of primary public transportation so there you have it guys that are some awesome facts on Sri Lanka before I get out of here I get this last ride for you because I feel it brings out the environmentalist in all of us Sri Lanka.
9 Srilanka has made some pretty cool world records but one of the most interesting ones is the sacred fig or bo tree Vica Strela dosia and it is the world's oldest planted tree now the sacred bo tree is a two thousand three hundred year old sacred tree that is known to be planted by human hands it was planted in 288 BC and it has some relations to Buddha.
10 Buddha himself this is because the mother of this tree was the one that Buddha was sitting under when he gained enlightenment but that's it for me guys my name is Dave Wawa it's been a pleasure talking about this awesome country and learning something new I got to say I love being able to pull my head out of my country's dirt and look around and say man there's something interesting about that country speaking about countries guys.
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