Cyprus
Cyprus is an island in the Mediterranean Sea, to the south of Turkey and west of Lebanon. Since July 1974, Cyprus has been politically separated into two separate territories divided by the "Green Line"; travel between the two parts is much easier than it used to be.
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Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea
- Also known as: “Alashiya”, “Asy”, “Chipir”, “Ciper (otok)”, “Cyprus (island)”, “Cyprus Island”, “Ellan Coobyr”, “Ile de Chypre”, “île de Chypre”, “Île de Chypre”, “Ilha do Chipre”, “Illa d’Xipre”, “Island of Cyprus”, “isola di Cipro”, “Kipr adası”, “Kipras sala”, “Kıbrıs Adası”, “ostrov Kypr”, “otok Ciper”, “Yadnana”, “Yeşilada”, “yn Chyprys”, “Zyprer”, “востраў Кіпр”, “Жанубий Кипр”, “Кіпр (востраў)”, and “キュプロス島”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Panagia tou Araka and Panagia tis Asinou.
Panagia tou Araka
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Agros and Kyperounta.
Lagoudera
Village
Cyprus
- Category: landform
- Location: Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.003° or 35° 0′ 11″ north
Longitude
32.9879° or 32° 59′ 17″ east
Population
1,140,000
Elevation
816 metres (2,677 feet)
Open location code
8G7J2X3Q+65
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cyprus” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Siprus (eiland)”
- Afrikaans: “Siprus”
- Arabic: “قبرص”
- Armenian: “Կիպրոս”
- Arpitan: “Ch·ipre”
- Azerbaijani: “Kipr”
- Bashkir: “Кипр (утрау)”
- Bashkir: “Кипр”
- Basque: “Zipre”
- Bavarian: “Zypern”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Кіпр”
- Belarusian: “Кіпр”
- Breton: “Kiprenez”
- Bulgarian: “Кипър”
- Catalan: “Xipre”
- Cebuano: “Cyprus”
- Chinese: “塞浦路斯岛”
- Chinese: “塞浦路斯島”
- Chinese: “賽普勒斯島”
- Chuvash: “Кипр утравĕ”
- Chuvash: “Кипр”
- Crimean Tatar: “Qıbrız”
- Croatian: “Cipar”
- Czech: “Kypr”
- Danish: “Cypern”
- Dutch: “Cyprus”
- Esperanto: “Kipro”
- Estonian: “Küprose saar”
- Finnish: “Kypros”
- French: “Chypre”
- Gagauz: “Kipra”
- Galician: “Illa de Chipre”
- German: “Zypern”
- Greek: “Kýpros”
- Greek: “Κύπρος”
- Hebrew: “קפריסין”
- Hungarian: “Ciprus”
- Ido: “Insulo Kipros”
- Inari Sami: “Kypros”
- Indonesian: “Siprus”
- Irish: “an Chipir”
- Italian: “Cipro”
- Japanese: “キプロス島”
- Javanese: “Siprus”
- Kazakh: “Кипр аралы”
- Kazakh: “Кипр”
- Korean: “키프로스섬”
- Ladino: “Kipre”
- Latvian: “Kipra”
- Ligurian: “Isoa de Çipro”
- Malagasy: “Nosin’ i Kiprôsy”
- Malagasy: “Nosy ny Kipra”
- Manx: “yn Cheeprey”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ku-pí-lō͘-tó”
- Northern Frisian: “Zypern (Eilun)”
- Northern Frisian: “Zypern”
- Northern Sami: “Kypros”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kypros”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kypros”
- Norwegian: “Kypros”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chipre”
- Ossetian: “Кипр”
- Polish: “Cypr”
- Portuguese: “Chipre”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Chipre”
- Romanian: “Cipru”
- Russian: “Кипр”
- Rusyn: “Кипр”
- Skolt Sami: “Kypros”
- Slovak: “Cyprus”
- Slovenian: “Ciper”
- South Azerbaijani: “قیبریس (آدا)”
- South Azerbaijani: “قیبریس”
- Spanish: “Isla de Chipre”
- Swedish: “Cypern”
- Swiss German: “Zypere”
- Swiss German: “Zypern”
- Talysh: “Kipr”
- Tatar: “Кипр утравы”
- Turkish: “Kıbrıs”
- Ukrainian: “Кіпр”
- Uzbek: “Qibris”
- Wu Chinese: “塞浦路斯岛”
- Yue Chinese: “塞浦路斯島”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Mavrochoma and Kaminia tou Diakou.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Ágios Nikólaos and Kalyfes.
Cyprus: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Nicosia and Akrotiri and Dhekelia.
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