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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1482 | Francesco Berlinghieri | ![]() | |
| 1535 | Laurent Fries | Based on the 2nd century CE Geography | ![]() |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1815 | Sketch map of Kandy and environ in 1815 | |||
| 1914 | Map of Kandy and environs | ![]() |


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