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The country's trade in luxury goods and spices attracted traders of many nations, which helped to create Sri Lanka's diverse population. Because its location made it a major trading hub, it was already known to both Far Easterners and Europeans as long ago as the Anuradhapura period. Sri Lanka's geographic location and deep harbours have made it of great strategic importance, from the earliest days of the ancient Silk Road trade route to today's so-called maritime Silk Road. The earliest known Buddhist writings of Sri Lanka, known collectively as the Pāli canon, date to the fourth Buddhist council, which took place in 29 BCE. Sri Lanka's documented history goes back 3,000 years, with evidence of prehistoric human settlements that dates to at least 125,000 years ago. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is its legislative capital, and Colombo is its largest city and financial centre. Sri Lanka shares a maritime border with India and the Maldives. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, and southeast of the Arabian Sea it is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. Sri Lanka ( UK: / s r i ˈ l æ ŋ k ə, ʃ r iː -/, US: /- ˈ l ɑː ŋ k ə/ ( listen) Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකාව, romanized: Śrī Laṅkā ( IPA: ) Tamil: இலங்கை, romanized: Ilaṅkai ( IPA: )), formerly known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. Check the Sri Lanka/Meets page to see if there any user meets or mapping parties in your city.You may need rendering support to display the Indic text in this article correctly.If you have a question, you can post it to the Sri Lanka-talk mailing list(see above) or post it in the FAQ section where you can browse through commonly asked questions.The OSM Beginners' Guide and Getting Involved page.Put your name in the WikiProject_Sri_Lanka#Contributors table.Add yourself to Category:Users in Sri Lanka.If you are a new Sri Lankan mapper, please check out the following places: 4 Common Features and Tagging Guidelines.1 Project to create an open and free map of Sri Lanka in OpenStreetMap.