Cartography of Sri Lanka
# 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

Sortable table :

| Date | Carto- grapher | Description |
| - | - | - |
| 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

Sortable table :

| Date | Title | Carto- grapher | Description | Image |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1815 | Sketch map of Kandy and environ in 1815 | | | |
| 1914 | Map of Kandy and environs | | | |
