Galle Road
The main southern road runs the full length of the municipality, parallel to the coast, acting as a spine from which most streets branch inland.
Minimalist map poster · Sri Lanka
6.8402° N / 79.8712° E
A long coastal strip south of Colombo, where road, railway and beach run side by side toward a headland hotel.

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Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia is a narrow, densely built municipality directly south of Colombo, stretched along the Indian Ocean coast. Its structure is linear. Galle Road, the main route south along Sri Lanka's west coast, runs parallel to the shoreline, and the coastal railway line runs even closer to the sea, often just a few metres from the sand. The side streets branch inland from these two lines.
Two landmarks give the municipality its identity. The National Zoological Gardens in Dehiwala is one of the oldest zoos in Asia. At the southern end, the Mount Lavinia Hotel stands on a small rocky headland; it was built in the early nineteenth century as the residence of the British governor Sir Thomas Maitland and later converted into a hotel.
Inland, the map shows a finely grained web of lanes, housing and canals leading toward low-lying wetlands. A Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia map poster captures the contrast between the straight coastal bands and this irregular inner network, with the open ocean forming a clean edge along one entire side of the frame.
The main southern road runs the full length of the municipality, parallel to the coast, acting as a spine from which most streets branch inland.
The coastal railway line follows the shore closely, tracing a thin line between the beaches and the built-up area, one of the most distinctive features of the map.
At Mount Lavinia, the coastline bulges slightly around a small rocky point where the historic hotel stands, a rare break in an otherwise smooth shoreline.
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Why Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia
For those who grew up south of Colombo, or spent evenings on the beach at Mount Lavinia, this map shows a familiar rhythm: sea, railway, road and lanes. It is a strong, simple image to hang at home or abroad.
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| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
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