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The official languages are Sinhala and Tamil. Today Colombo has a population of about 1.3 million, an estimated 5 million people live in its metropolitan area. The island came under Dutch control in the 17th-century, it passed to Great Britain in 1796, when the Kingdom of Kandy fell to the British Empire.
However, the "Pearl of the Indian Ocean" was known to Arabian, Roman and Persian merchants and sailors who were doing business along the ancient East-West trade routes, long before the Portuguese set foot on the island. The site of present-day Colombo became a Portuguese trading post at the beginning of the 16th-century.
Colombo Harbor is the largest and busiest port in Sri Lanka and one of the largest in South Asia.
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