Keryneia

Kyrenia is the chief port and tourist resort of . Its old centre is dominated by the castle over the harbour, built by the Venetians in 1540.
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  • Type: District with 62,200 residents
  • Description: district of Cyprus
  • Also known as: “CY-01”, “Districte de Kyrenia”, “Distrito de Girne”, “Dystrykt Kyrenia”, “Girne bölgesi”, “Girnės apygarda”, “Keryneia District”, “Kyrenia”, “Kyrenia district”, “Kyrenia District”, “Гирне”, “Киренея”, “Округ Керинеја”, “مقاطعة كيرينيا”, and “منطقه كيرينيا”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights: Boğaz Martyrs‘ Cemetery.

Cemetery
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Agirda and Krini.

Village
is a Turkish Cypriot village in the Kyrenia District of .

Village
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is a village in the Kyrenia District of .

Village
is a village in , located west of .

Keryneia

Latitude
35.2991° or 35° 17′ 57″ north
Longitude
33.2542° or 33° 15′ 15″ east
Population
62,200
Elevation
271 metres (889 feet)
Open location code
8G7M77X3+JM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8265433744
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­district
Geo­Names ID
146411
Wiki­data ID
Q59146
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Keryneia” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ከሪኔያ”
  • Arabic: “منطقة كيرينيا”
  • Armenian: “Կիրենիայի շրջան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kireniya”
  • Basque: “Kireniako barrutia”
  • Bengali: “কায়রেনিয়া জেলা”
  • Bulgarian: “Кирения”
  • Catalan: “districte de Cerinea”
  • Catalan: “Districte de Cerinea”
  • Catalan: “districte de Kerínia”
  • Cebuano: “Eparchía Kerýneias”
  • Chinese: “凯里尼亚区”
  • Czech: “Girne”
  • Czech: “Kyrenia”
  • Danish: “Kyrenia District”
  • Dutch: “Kyrenia”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Kirenio”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Kyrenia”
  • Finnish: “Kyrenian alue”
  • French: “district de Kyrenia”
  • French: “District de Kyrenia”
  • French: “Kyrenia”
  • Georgian: “კირენიის რაიონი”
  • German: “Bezirk Kyrenia”
  • Greek: “Kerýneia”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Κερύνειας”
  • Greek: “Κερύνεια”
  • Gujarati: “કીરેનિયા જિલ્લો”
  • Hausa: “Keryneia”
  • Hindi: “कायरेनिया जिला”
  • Hungarian: “Kyrenia kerület”
  • Indonesian: “Distrik Kyrenia”
  • Italian: “distretto di Kyrenia”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Kyrenia”
  • Japanese: “キレニア地区”
  • Javanese: “Kireniya”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿರೆನಿಯಾ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Керинея”
  • Kirghiz: “Керинея”
  • Korean: “키레니아 구”
  • Korean: “키레니아구”
  • Kurdish: “qezaya Kerîniyayê”
  • Latvian: “Kerinijas eparhija”
  • Limburgan: “Girne”
  • Lithuanian: “Kirenijos apygarda”
  • Low German: “Bezirk Kyrenia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bezierk Kyrenia”
  • Malay: “Daerah Kyrenia”
  • Marathi: “कायरेनिया जिल्हा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Distrikt Kyrenia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kyrenia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Distriktet Kerýnia”
  • Norwegian: “Kyrenia”
  • Oromo: “Kireniyaa”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੇਰੇਨੀਆ”
  • Persian: “ناحیه گیرنه”
  • Polish: “Dystrykt Kirenia”
  • Portuguese: “Cirénia”
  • Portuguese: “Kyrenia”
  • Pushto: “کیرنیا”
  • Romanian: “Districtul Kyrenia”
  • Russian: “Кирения”
  • Russian: “Кириния”
  • Scots: “Kyrenia Destrict”
  • Serbian: “Керинеја”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kerineja (distrikt)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kerineja”
  • Sinhala: “කයිරෙනියා දිස්ත්‍රික්කය, සයිප්‍රසය”
  • Sinhala: “කයිරෙනියා දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Slovak: “Girne”
  • Slovenian: “Eparhija Kirenija”
  • Somali: “Kireniya”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Kyrenia”
  • Spanish: “Girne”
  • Swahili: “Keryneia”
  • Swedish: “Kyrenia”
  • Tajik: “Керинея”
  • Tamil: “கியரேனியா மாவட்டம்”
  • Tatar: “Керинея”
  • Telugu: “కైరేనియా జిల్లా”
  • Thai: “เขตคีรีเนีย”
  • Turkish: “Girne İlçesi”
  • Turkish: “Girne kazası”
  • Ukrainian: “Киренія”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіренія”
  • Urdu: “ضلع کیرینیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Kireniya”
  • Vietnamese: “Huyện Kyrenia”
  • Vietnamese: “Kyrenia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kyrenia”
  • Western Armenian: “Կիրենիա”
  • Western Armenian: “Քիրենիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Kyrenia (distrikt)”
  • Western Frisian: “Kyrenia”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع کیرینیا”

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