The Island of Sri Lanka lies 3 degrees north of the equator, 82 degrees east of Greenwich and 32 KM southeast of India. She occupies 65,610 sq Km (approximately 25,000 sq miles). She possesses tropical beaches, ancient monuments, rain forests, gorgeous waterfalls and many places to delight any person. The typically tropical climate with an average temperature of 27⁰C fluctuates between 15⁰ C in the highlands to 35⁰C in certain areas of the lowlands.

Sri Lanka is mainly an agricultural country. She is self sufficient in her staple diet rice which is the largest cultivation. Tea, Coconut and Rubber are the main economic agricultural crops. Tea brings beauty as well as the foreign exchange to the country.

Sri Lanka, according to historical sources was settled by Indo-Aryans in the 6th century B.C. These Indo-Aryans were the first Sinhalese, who are 74% of the population today. The Indo-Aryans assimilated the indigenous inhabitants who are called Yakkhas in the historical chronicles. While the country had contacts in historical times with various foreign races, the Tamil and Muslim minorities of the present day had no settlements in the island until about the 10th century AD; that is to say about 1,500 years after the Sinhalese settlement.  

From the 19th Century however, Tamil minority leaders have put forward various claims to political rights unsupported by fact or principle. From the early 1970s the Tamil political leadership has sought to enforce even more extreme claims with the use of violence. From 1949 the Tamils have been claiming the right to establish a Tamil state in over one third of the island. A Muslim theocratic party, the only such in a non-Muslim country, was formed in 1985 with the objective of establishing a Muslim political region in the island. The Indian Tamils, the first of whom were brought in the 19th century as labour by the British, were a floating population until the end of the Second World War. Though they were all entitled to Indian citizenship under Article 8 of the Indian constitution, they have been indiscriminately granted Sri Lankan citizenship by various Governments of independent Sri Lanka. The Indian Tamil leaders now expect to establish an Indian Tamil autonomous region in the heart of the country.  

Minority politics particularly Tamil terrorism seek to wreck the political, financial and cultural life of the country and there is serious disruption already. 

SRI LANKAN PEOPLE
Sri Lankan ethnically fall into four main categories. They are viz Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim and Burger. The population of the Sri Lanka was estimated to be 17.6 million in year 1994. The largest ethnic group is Sinhala being 74% of the Population. The Sinhala People, whose language belongs to the Indo-Aryan family, is the oldest living Indo-Aryan language. Evolution of this language can be followed by studying the inscriptions and literature from the third century BC. Arrival of Sinhala people to Sri Lanka on 6th BC was archeologically proven when excavation in the Anuradhapura citadel came across a vessel of ceramic which was inscripted in Brahmi script. The script "BIYA ANURADHA" which was the name of one of the ministers of the King Vijaya the leader of the people who came to Sri Lankan.

Historical chronicles of Sri Lanka called Mahavansa and Deepawansa corroborating with those archaeological evidence which was tested by radio carbon and photoluminescence methods. Immigration from South India was witnessed much later time and they were also desolated to the dry zone by Portuguese and Dutch who later captured the coastal areas of Sri Lanka. Buddhism was introduced to the isle in the 3rd century BC by Buddhist mission set by the India great emperor Asoka. Almost the entire population observed Buddhism and it became the national religion. Today 63% of the population and Buddhists almost all o them are Sinhala. 15.5% of population are Hindus and most of them are Tamil. As a religion, Muslim represent 7.6% of the population, while 6.8% of the population being the Roman Catholics.

Sri Lankans are well known for hospitality in all over the world. They are always smiling and friendly. They are very tribe base hence they love their mother land and their language very much.