Many people think Srilanka is Lanka of Ramayana.
They show some evidences like ram setu, Ashok Vatika etc.,
But Ramayana clearly states that Ravana's Lanka was situated 100 Yojanas (roughly 1213 km or 753.72 miles) away from mainland India.
But the present-day Lanka is about 20 miles off the Indian coast at its nearest point.
Moreover
Siṁhala and Laṅkā
The majority population of what is now known as “Sri Lanka” are called the Sinhalese people after an old name for the island “Siṁhala.” This name is attested in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.19.29-30:
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, in the opinion of some learned scholars, eight smaller islands surround Jambūdvīpa. When the sons of Mahārāja Sagara were searching all over the world for their lost horse, they dug up the earth, and in this way eight adjoining islands came into existence. The names of these islands are Svarṇaprastha, Candraśukla, Āvartana, Ramaṇaka, Mandara-hariṇa, Pāñcajanya, Siṁhala and Laṅkā.
However Siṁhala cannot be Laṅkā because “Laṅkā” is listed as the name of a separate and different island.
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Hare Krishna prabhuji
I remember a katha when the pandavs stared to rule indraprastha, all of them went to different directions for a yajna in which they went to allthe kingdoms and asked them to be under the rule of yudhishthir maharaj and if they decline they had to fight them to claim their independence. In it one of the pandav also went to lanka where vibhishan maharaj, was still ruling, it shows that their is a subtle lanka apart from this lanka , where vibhishan maharaj is still the king.
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