| LC control no. | n 80061039 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Sri Lanka |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Sri Lanka |
| Variant(s) | Cellao Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Ilaṅkai Lanka Serendib Serendip Shri Lanka Sī Langkā Sri Lanka Prajathanthrika Samajavadi Janarajaya Śrīlaṅkā Taprobane Zeilan |
| See also | Predecessor: Ceylon http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60683 |
| Other standard no. | 1208730 1227603 1000110 0000000121527336 D013188 6e2d562d-a754-3036-8484-7ac576606e27 126600002 Q854 |
| Biography/History note | In May 1972 Ceylon became a republic and adopted the name Sri Lanka. |
| Beginning date | 1972-05 |
| Associated place | Asia South Asia |
| Found in | Fernando, N. Serendip to Sri Lanka, 1991: p. 29 (many names, Lanka, Serendib, Taprobane, Cellao, Zeilan) Piyanāt Bunnāk. Prawattisāt læ ʻārayatham khō̜ng Sī Langkā ... 1991. The statesman's year-book, 1995-1996: p. 1213 (Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka Prajathanthrika Samajavadi Janarajaya (Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka)); 2005: p. 1509 (Ceylon became republic and adopted name Sri Lanka, May 1972) Śrīlaṅkā ke samāja evaṃ dharma para Bhāratīya prabhāva, 2009: t.p. (Śrīlaṅkā) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (island; 07°30ʹ00ʺN 080°30ʹ00ʺE) Tamil Ilaṅkaic carittiram = Tamil history of Ceylon, 1930 t.p. (Ilaṅkai) LAC internal file, March 18, 2019 (heading: Sri Lanka; variants: Shri Lanka; Ceylon) |
| National bib agency no. | 0053C1747E |
| Geographic area code | a-ce--- |
| Invalid LCCN | sh 85127129 |
| Quality code | nlc |
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