Cartography of Sri Lanka
The cartography of Sri Lanka is the history of the surveying and creation of maps of Sri Lanka. A list of maps of Sri Lanka in chronological order is shown below.
Maps
Date | Carto- grapher | Description | Image |
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1st century CE | ![]() | ||
1482 | ![]() | ||
1595 | Petrus Plancius | Left–right is north–south. | ![]() |
1681 | Robert Knox | ![]() | |
17th century; after 1681 | Nicolaes Visscher II | ![]() | |
1686 | Alain Manesson Mallet | ![]() | |
17th century | Robert Morden | ![]() | |
1789 | ![]() | ||
late-19th century | ![]() | ||
c. 1914 | ![]() |
Small-scale maps
Date | Title | Carto- grapher | Description | Image |
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1815 | Sketch map of Kandy and environ in 1815 | |||
1914 | Map of Kandy and environs | ![]() |
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