title: Cartography of Sri Lanka
text: # 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 | | | |
  