Sri Lanka

The country calling code for Sri Lanka is +94. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Sri Lanka number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Sri Lanka is assigned LK as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and LKA as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Sri Lanka is .lk. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Sri Lanka is the Sri Lankan rupee, with the ISO 4217 code LKR and the symbol Rs. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Sri Lanka are quoted in LKR. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Sri Lanka is +05:30, currently UTC+05:30. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Sri Lanka is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte. Sri Lanka sits in Asia, specifically the Southern Asia subregion. Its approximate centre point is 7.00000000, 81.00000000. Traffic in Sri Lanka drives on the left. Languages recorded for Sri Lanka: Sinhalese, Tamil.

Sri Lanka shares a land border with 1 country: India. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.