Lefka
Lefka is a town in Cyprus, overlooking Morphou Bay. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus. In 2011, the town proper had 3,009 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Seksen iki yüz kırk beş, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 7,840 residents
- Description: town in Cyprus
- Also known as: “Lefka Northern Cyprus”, “Lefka, Northern Cyprus”, “Lefke”, and “Lefke-Karadağ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peristeronari and Kalo Chorio.
Peristeronari
Village
Peristeronari is a village in Cyprus, near Lefka. De facto, it is under the control of Northern Cyprus. Peristeronari is situated 2½ km northeast of Lefka.
Kalo Chorio
Village
Photo: Seksen iki yüz kırk beş, Public domain.
Kalo Chorio is a village east of Lefka in Cyprus. De facto, it is under the control of Northern Cyprus. Kalo Chorio is situated 2½ km east of Lefka.
Agios Nikolaos Lefkas
Hamlet
Agios Nikolaos Lefkas is an abandoned village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus, and it lies within the UN Buffer Zone. In 1946, the village had a population of 132. Agios Nikolaos Lefkas is situated 3 km southeast of Lefka.
Lefka
- Category: locality
- Location: Léfka, Nicosia, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.11388° or 35° 6′ 50″ northLongitude
32.84839° or 32° 50′ 54″ eastPopulation
7,840Elevation
129 metres (423 feet)Open location code
8G7J4R7X+H9OpenStreetMap ID
way 696236231OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
146392Wikidata ID
Q967211
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Lefka” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لفكا”
- Arabic: “لفكة”
- Armenian: “Լեֆկա”
- Asturian: “Lefka”
- Azerbaijani: “Lefka”
- Cebuano: “Léfka”
- Chinese: “莱夫卡”
- Chinese: “萊夫卡”
- Dutch: “Lefka”
- Dutch: “Lefke”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لفكا”
- Finnish: “Léfka”
- French: “Lefke”
- Gagauz: “Lefke”
- Georgian: “ლეფკა”
- German: “Lefgios/Lefke”
- German: “Lefke”
- Greek: “Léfka”
- Greek: “Λεύκα Λευκωσίας”
- Greek: “Λευκα”
- Greek: “Λεύκα”
- Italian: “Lefka”
- Italian: “Lefke”
- Italian: “Leuka”
- Japanese: “レフカ”
- Japanese: “レフケ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Lefke”
- Moksha: “Лэфка”
- Northern Frisian: “Lefgios”
- Northern Frisian: “Lefka”
- Northern Frisian: “Lefke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lefka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lefka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lévka”
- Norwegian: “Lefka”
- Persian: “لفکا”
- Polish: “Lefka”
- Russian: “Лефка”
- Scots: “Lefka”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lefka”
- Spanish: “Lefka”
- Swedish: “Lefka”
- Swedish: “Léfka”
- Turkish: “Lefke KKTC”
- Turkish: “Lefke Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti”
- Turkish: “Lefke Kuzey Kıbrıs”
- Turkish: “Lefke, KKTC”
- Turkish: “Lefke, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti”
- Turkish: “Lefke, Kuzey Kıbrıs”
- Turkish: “Lefke”
- Ukrainian: “Лефка”
- Urdu: “لیفکا”
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