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Sri Lanka is a pear shaped island, separated from the Indian continent by the Palk Strait, which at its narrowest has a width of 29 km. The island covers an area of about 65610km2 and is approximately 430km long and 225km wide at its maximum extremities. The estimated population is 17 million.
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Mubarak, A.M., Manuweera, G.K., Senviratne, R. (1996). Contaminants and the soil environment in Sri Lanka. In: Naidu, R., Kookana, R.S., Oliver, D.P., Rogers, S., McLaughlin, M.J. (eds) Contaminants and the Soil Environment in the Australasia-Pacific Region. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1626-5_24
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