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Country as Larkin recollected (3,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sri lanka

'country' is the definition.
(I know that Sri Lanka is a country)

'as larkin recollected' is the wordplay.
'recollected' indicates anagramming the letters (letters recollected and rearranged).
'as'+'larkin'='aslarkin'
'aslarkin' anagrammed gives 'SRI LANKA'.

(Other definitions for sri lanka that I've seen before include "Present name of Ceylon" , "Ceylon since 1972" , "Former Ceylon" , "Asian country, originally the Arabic Serendib or Serendip" , "Island country in the Indian Ocean" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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