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Famagusta district
Lefkónoiko

Lefkoniko

Lefkoniko is a town in the under the de facto control of , claimed by . Lefkoniko is the birthplace of Cypriot national poet Vasilis Michaelides and is known for its lace. of the Turkish Air Force is near Lefkoniko.
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  • Type: Town with 3,190 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Aksaray”, “Lefkoniko Municipality”, “Lefkonikon”, and “Lefkonoiko”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Geçitkale Air Base.

Aerodrome
or Lefkoniko Airport is a military airfield of the Turkish Air Force near Lefkoniko in . Construction was completed around 1990. is situated 3 km south of Lefkoniko.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Psyllatos and Goufes.

Village
is a village in the of , located 5 km west of Lefkoniko on the main - highway. It is under the de facto control of . is situated 4 km west of Lefkoniko.

Village
is a village in , 6 km northwest of Lefkoniko. It is under the de facto control of . As of 2011, it had a population of 100. is situated 4½ km northwest of Lefkoniko.

Village
, sometimes also Gypsos, is a village located in the of , near the town of Lefkoniko. It is under the de facto control of the territory of Cyprus that is forcibly and illegally occupied by the Turkish Armed Forces, following their invasion of Cyprus in the summer of 1974. is situated 5 km east of Lefkoniko.

Lefkoniko

Latitude
35.26053° or 35° 15′ 38″ north
Longitude
33.7322° or 33° 43′ 56″ east
Population
3,190
Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)
IATA airport code
GEC
Open location code
8G7M7P6J+6V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1097038376
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
146391
Wiki­data ID
Q934563
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Urdu—“Lefkoniko” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Լեֆկոնիկո”
  • Bulgarian: “Левконико”
  • Catalan: “Levkóniko”
  • Cebuano: “Lefkónoiko”
  • Chinese: “列夫科尼科”
  • Dutch: “Lefkoniko”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليفكونيكو”
  • Esperanto: “Lefkoniko”
  • Finnish: “Lefkónoiko”
  • French: “Geçitkale”
  • French: “Lefkóniko”
  • French: “Lefkonuk”
  • Georgian: “ლეფკონიკო”
  • German: “Lefkoniko/Geçitkale”
  • Greek: “Lefkónoiko”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Λευκονοίκου”
  • Greek: “Λευκόνοικο”
  • Hebrew: “לפקוניקו”
  • Italian: “Lefkoniko”
  • Moksha: “Лэфконико”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lefkoniko”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Levkóniko”
  • Norwegian: “Lefkoniko”
  • Persian: “لفکونیکو”
  • Polish: “Lefkoniko”
  • Portuguese: “Lefcônico”
  • Portuguese: “Lefkoniko”
  • Russian: “Лефконико”
  • Slovenian: “Lefkoniko”
  • Spanish: “Lefkoniko”
  • Swedish: “Lefkónoiko”
  • Turkish: “Geçitkale KKTC”
  • Turkish: “Geçitkale Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Geçitkale Kuzey Kıbrıs”
  • Turkish: “Geçitkale, KKTC”
  • Turkish: “Geçitkale, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Geçitkale, Kuzey Kıbrıs”
  • Turkish: “Geçitkale, Mağusa”
  • Turkish: “Geçitkale”
  • Ukrainian: “Лефконіко”
  • Urdu: “لیفکونیکو”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lefkoniko”. Photo: George Groutas, CC BY 2.0.