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Sri Lanka GIS data sources

Region
Southern Asia
ISO 3166
LK · LKA
Sources
11
Themes
9
Last verified

Where to download GIS data for Sri Lanka: 11 sources across 9 themes, led by UN OCHA and Survey Department. 4 offer vector downloads such as Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON. 5 are under an open licence. Every link was last checked on 18 Oct 2026.

Country atlases

National and OpenStreetMap sources for Sri Lanka

Boundaries & admin 3

Administrative boundary data for every country

  • Survey Department of Sri Lanka (opens in a new tab)

    Portal Cost: Paid

    Survey Department

    National mapping agency; digital topographic data are sold, with some layers on the national geoportal.

    • Boundaries & admin
    Licence
    See publisher terms
    Link
    survey.gov.lk

    Verified

  • Sri Lanka - Subnational Administrative Boundaries (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    UN OCHA (HDX)

    Common Operational Dataset of subnational administrative boundaries with P-codes; source: Survey Department of Sri Lanka (http://www.survey.gov.lk).

    • Boundaries & admin
    Licence
    CC BY 3.0 IGO
    Formats
    File geodatabase, Shapefile, GeoJSON, XLSX
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

  • geoBoundaries administrative boundaries (opens in a new tab)

    API Cost: Free

    William & Mary geoLab

    JSON API listing every available admin level with direct download links.

    • Boundaries & admin
    Licence
    Varies (open; see metadata)
    Formats
    GeoJSON, Shapefile, TopoJSON
    Link
    geoboundaries.org

    Verified

Buildings 1

Building footprint data for every country

  • Buildings of Sri Lanka (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HDX)

    OpenStreetMap building footprints exported by HOT and refreshed regularly.

    • Buildings
    Licence
    ODbL 1.0
    Formats
    GeoPackage, GeoParquet, Shapefile, GeoJSON, PMTiles
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

Population 2

Gridded population data for every country

  • Sri Lanka - Subnational Population Statistics (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    UN OCHA (HDX)

    Common Operational Dataset of population estimates by administrative unit, joinable to the COD-AB via P-codes; source: Sri Lanka Department of Census and Statistics.

    • Population
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    CC BY 3.0 IGO
    Formats
    XLSX, CSV
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

  • WorldPop population data – Sri Lanka (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    WorldPop, University of Southampton

    100 m and 1 km gridded population counts, age/sex structure and related layers.

    • Population
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF
    Link
    hub.worldpop.org

    Verified

Census & statistics 1

Census and statistics data for every country

Transport 1

Road, rail and transport data for every country

Climate & weather 1

Climate and weather data for every country

  • Department of Meteorology (opens in a new tab)

    Portal Cost: Free

    Department of Meteorology

    Official weather observations, forecasts and climate information.

    • Climate & weather
    Licence
    See publisher terms
    Link
    meteo.gov.lk

    Verified

Natural hazards 1

Natural hazard data for every country

Geology 1

Geology data for every country

Global datasets that cover Sri Lanka

Worldwide and continental layers that include Sri Lanka, useful where national data is missing, restricted or inconsistent across borders.

Boundaries & admin
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Imagery
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Buildings
Population
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Transport
Hydrology
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