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.

## Maps

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Sortable table  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

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Sortable table  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  |  |  |

## References

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Cartography topics

History|

* Early world maps
* Medieval Islamic cartography
* Early modern Iberian cartography
* Early modern Netherlandish cartography

By area|

| By continent|

* Africa
* Asia
* Europe
* Latin America

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By country|

* China
* France
* India
* Israel
* Jamaica
* New Zealand
* Palestine
* Sri Lanka
* Switzerland
* Ukraine
* United States

By city|

* Dublin
* Jerusalem
* New York
* York

Individual maps|

| Ancient age|

* Ptolemy's world map
* Soleto Map (Sec. V BC)

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Middle age|

* Tabula Rogeriana (1154)
* Catalan Atlas (1375)

Early Modern age|

* Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500)
* Cantino planisphere (1502)
* Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) (1544)

Contemporary age|

* Cassini map

See also|

* Compass rose
* Points of the compass

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