A vintage map of the Indian Ocean, East Africa, and Southeast Asia showing the main areas of tea production. Published by the Ceylon Tea Centre to promote Sri Lanka as the world's finest producer.

At the time of printing, tea exports made up 70% of Sri Lanka's exports, supplying almost one third of Britain's overall tea consumption. India, Bangladesh, and Indonesia are also shown with many large tea estates. The lesser-known tea estates of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Mozambique are particularly interesting to see on this map, as are the tea-producing regions of the Caucasus and northern Iran. China, Japan, and Vietnam are also marked as tea producers, though largely on small estates for home consumption. The ports through which tea was exported around the world are named in red lettering.

Printed colour. [WLD4670]