BMS World Mission

Sri Lanka

Stats
Region: Asia
Capital: Colombo
Area: 65,610 sq km
Population: 20,926,315 (est July 2007)
Languages: Sinhalese, Tamil
Religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity
Life expectancy: 74.8 (est 2007)
Population below poverty line: 22% (est 2002)

 

Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka is one of BMS World Mission's oldest partners; the first BMS worker beginning work on the island in 1812.