URI(s)

• http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80061039

Codes

• a-ce---

Variants

• Cellao
• Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
• Ilaṅkai
• Lanka
• Serendib
• Serendip
• Shri Lanka
• Sī Langkā
• Sri Lanka Prajathanthrika Samajavadi Janarajaya
• Śrīlaṅkā
• Taprobane
• Zeilan

Identifies LC/NAF RWO

• http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n80061039

Identifies RWO

• http://sws.geonames.org/1227603/
• http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/1000110-place
• https://isni.org/isni/0000000121527336
• http://musicbrainz.org/area/6e2d562d-a754-3036-8484-7ac576606e27#_
• http://www.viaf.org/viaf/126600002
• http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q854

• Activity Start

  1972-05

• Descriptor

  Country (wikidata)

• Descriptor

  Sovereign state (wikidata)

• Descriptor

  http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300387506

• Descriptor

  Republics

• Descriptor

  http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300128207

• Descriptor

  http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300387062

• Descriptor

  Nation (thesoz)

• Descriptor

  State (eurovocen)

• Descriptor

  State (stw)

• Descriptor

  Nation-state

• Descriptor

  Independent political entity

• Associated Locale

  Asia

• Associated Locale

  South Asia

Has Demonym

• Sri Lankans

Additional Related Forms

• Ceylon

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• Sri Lanka
• http://viaf.org/en/viaf/LC%7Cn%20%2080061039
• http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/1000110
• http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013188

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

• Sri Lanka
• Sri Lanka
• Sri Lanka

Sources

• found:Fernando, N. Serendip to Sri Lanka, 1991:p. 29 (many names, Lanka, Serendib, Taprobane, Cellao, Zeilan)
• found:Piyanāt Bunnāk. Prawattisāt læ ʻārayatham khō̜ng Sī Langkā ... 1991.
• found: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)
• found:Śrīlaṅkā ke samāja evaṃ dharma para Bhāratīya prabhāva, 2009:t.p. (Śrīlaṅkā)
• found:GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(island; 07°30ʹ00ʺN 080°30ʹ00ʺE)
• found:Tamil Ilaṅkaic carittiram = Tamil history of Ceylon, 1930t.p. (Ilaṅkai)
• found:LAC internal file, March 18, 2019(heading: Sri Lanka; variants: Shri Lanka; Ceylon)

General Notes

• [In May 1972 Ceylon became a republic and adopted the name Sri Lanka.]

Instance Of

• MADS/RDF Geographic
• MADS/RDF Authority
• SKOS Concept

Scheme Membership(s)

• Library of Congress Name Authority File

Collection Membership(s)

• Names Collection - Authorized Headings
• LC Names Collection - General Collection

Change Notes

• 1980-07-16:new
• 2025-08-04:revised

Alternate Formats

• RDF/XML (MADS and SKOS)
• N-Triples (MADS and SKOS)
• JSON (MADS/RDF and SKOS/RDF)
• MADS - RDF/XML
• MADS - N-Triples
• MADS/RDF - JSON
• SKOS - RDF/XML
• SKOS - N-Triples
• SKOS - JSON
• MADS/XML
• MARC/XML