Cartography of Sri Lanka

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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.

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Maps

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Date Carto-
grapher 		DescriptionImage
1st century CE Ptolemy's Taprobana.jpg
1482 Francesco Berlinghieri, Geographia, incunabolo per niccolo di lorenzo, firenze 1482, 38 ceylon 02.jpg
1595 Petrus Plancius Left–right is north–south. Laor Sri Lanka Map (Cropped).jpg
1681Robert Knox MapofEelamTamilcountryengraving1692.jpg
17th century; after 1681 Nicolaes Visscher II Insula Ceilon olim Taprobana Incolis Tenarisin et Lankawn (Nicolaas Visscher).jpg
1686 Alain Manesson Mallet 1686 Mallet Map of Ceylon or Sri Lanka (Taprobane) - Geographicus - Taprobane-mallet-1686.jpg
17th century Robert Morden RobMordenmapTamilcountryVanni.jpg
1789 AMH-2634-NA Map of Ceylon.jpg
late-19th century Ceylon MKL Bd. 3 1890 (128593274).jpg
c. 1914 Ceylon (ca 1914).jpg

Small-scale maps

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DateTitle Carto-
grapher 		DescriptionImage
1815Sketch map of Kandy and environ in 1815 Sketch map of Kandy and environ in 1815.PNG
1914Map of Kandy and environs Map of Kandy and environs (Baedeker, 1914).jpg

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