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List of diplomatic missions of Sri Lanka

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ2607855 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of diplomatic missions of Sri Lanka, excluding honorary consulates. Sri Lanka has missions across almost all continents with bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 50 countries and states, and 2 permanent missions with the United Nations in New York City and Geneva.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 46-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with List, diplomatic and missions providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of diplomatic missions of Sri Lanka” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.