Akrotiri and Dhekelia

Akrotiri and Dhekelia, also known as the Sovereign Base Areas, is a that consists of two separate areas on the .
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  • Type: British Overseas Territories with 18,000 residents
  • Description: British Overseas Territory on the island of Cyprus
  • Also known as: “Acroteri and Decelea”, “SBA”, “Sovereign Base Areas (Cyprus)”, and “Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aetokremnos and Holy Monastery of St Nicholas of the Cats.

Archaeological site
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is a rock shelter near on the southern coast of . It is widely considered to host some of the oldest evidence of human habitation of Cyprus, dating to around 12,000 years ago.

Monastery
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.

Lake
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is the largest inland body of water on the island of . It is located in Akrotiri and Dhekelia, administered as a Sovereign Base Area; specifically in the Western Sovereign Base Area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Akrotiri Village and Cape Gata.

Village
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Akrotiri is a village within the Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area, which forms part of the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia. It is the only village in the Western SBA with a significant non-military population.

Locality
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is the south-eastern cape of the on the Mediterranean island of . It is located within the Sovereign Base Areas, and is the southernmost point of the island.

Locality
lies within Akrotiri and Dhekelia, a British Overseas Territory on the island of , administered as a Sovereign Base Area. It is located in the Western Sovereign Base Area and forms the south-west point of the which is the most southerly part of the island.

Akrotiri and Dhekelia

Latitude
34.5833° or 34° 35′ north
Longitude
32.9833° or 32° 59′ east
Population
18,000
Open location code
8G6JHXMM+88
Wiki­data ID
Q37362
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Akrotiri and Dhekelia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Akrotiri en Dhekelia”
  • Afrikaans: “Akrotiri en Dhekelië”
  • Albanian: “Akrotiri dhe Dhekelia”
  • Angika: “अक्रोत्तिरी आरो धेकेलिया”
  • Arabic: “أكروتيري ودكليا”
  • Arabic: “أكروتيري وديكيليا”
  • Aragonese: “Akrotiri e Dhekelia”
  • Aragonese: “Akrotiri y Dhekelia”
  • Armenian: “Ակրոտիրի և Դեկելիա”
  • Armenian: “Աքրոտիրի և Դեքելիա”
  • Arpitan: “Acrotiri et Dèquèlia”
  • Arpitan: “Akrotiri et Dhekèlia”
  • Asturian: “Acrotiri y Dhekelia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Akrotiri və Dekeliya Suveren Baza Əraziləri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Akrotiri və Dekeliya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Suveren Baza Əraziləri (Kipr)”
  • Bashkir: “Акротири һәм Декелия”
  • Basque: “Akrotiri eta Dhekelia”
  • Basque: “Akrotiri eta Dhekeliako base subirano britainiar burujabeak”
  • Belarusian: “Акратыры і Дэкелія”
  • Bengali: “আক্রোটিরি এবং ডেকিলিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Akrotiri èn Dékéliah”
  • Betawi: “Akrotiri èn Dèkèliah”
  • Bishnupriya: “ধেকেলিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Akrotiri i Dhekelia”
  • Breton: “Akrotiri ha Dekhelia”
  • Breton: “Akrotiri ha Dhekelia”
  • Bulgarian: “Акротири и Декелия”
  • Catalan: “Akrotiri i Dekélia”
  • Catalan: “Akrotiri i Dekèlia”
  • Catalan: “Akrotiri i Dhekèlia”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاکرۆتیری و دێکیلیا”
  • Chechen: “Акротири а, Декелиа а”
  • Chechen: “Акротири а”
  • Chinese: “Akrotiri kap Dhekelia”
  • Chinese: “亚克罗提利和德凯利亚”
  • Chinese: “亞克羅提利與德凱利亞”
  • Chinese: “塞普勒斯英屬基地區”
  • Chinese: “塞浦路斯英属基地区”
  • Chinese: “塞浦路斯英屬基地區”
  • Chinese: “賽普勒斯英屬基地區”
  • Chinese: “赛普勒斯英属基地区”
  • Chinese: “阿克罗蒂里和德凯利亚”
  • Chinese: “阿克罗蒂里和泽凯利亚”
  • Chinese: “阿克魯帝利及德基利亞”
  • Cornish: “Akrotiri ha Dhekelia”
  • Croatian: “Akrotiri i Dhekelia”
  • Czech: “Akrotíri a Dekéleia”
  • Czech: “Akrotiri a Dekelia”
  • Czech: “Akrotiri a Dhekelia”
  • Czech: “Suverénní základnové území Akrotiri a Dhekelia”
  • Czech: “Svrchované základny Akrotiri a Dekelia”
  • Czech: “Vojenské základny Akrotiri a Dhekelia”
  • Danish: “Akrotiri og Dhekelia”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Akrotiri u Dikelya”
  • Dutch: “Akrotiri en Dhekelia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكروتيرى وكليا”
  • Esperanto: “Akrotiri kaj Dekelia”
  • Esperanto: “Akrotiri kaj Dhekelia”
  • Estonian: “Akrotiri ja Dhekelia”
  • Estonian: “Suveräänsed Baasialad Küprosel”
  • Finnish: “Akrotíri ja Dekéleia”
  • Finnish: “Akrotiri ja Dhekelia”
  • French: “Akrotiri et Dhekelia”
  • French: “Episkopi Garrison”
  • Galician: “Akrotiri e Dhekelia”
  • Georgian: “აკროტირი და დეკელია”
  • German: “Akrotiri und Dekelia”
  • German: “Akrotiri und Dhekelia”
  • Greek: “Ακρωτήρι και Δεκέλεια”
  • Greek: “Περιοχές Κυρίαρχων Βάσεων Ακρωτηρίου και Δεκέλειας”
  • Gujarati: “અક્રોતીરી અને ધેકેલીયા”
  • Hebrew: “אקרוטירי ודקליה”
  • Hindi: “अक्रोत्तिरी एवं धेकेलिया”
  • Hindi: “अक्रोत्तिरी और धेकेलिया”
  • Hungarian: “Akrotiri és Dekélia”
  • Hungarian: “Akrotíri és Dekélia”
  • Hungarian: “Akrotiri és Dhekelia”
  • Icelandic: “Akrótírí og Dekelía”
  • Iloko: “Akrotiri ken Dhekelia”
  • Indonesian: “Akrotiri dan Dhekelia”
  • Irish: “Akrotiri agus Dhekelia”
  • Italian: “Akrotiri e Dhekelia”
  • Japanese: “アクロティリおよびデケリア”
  • Japanese: “アクロティリ及びデケリア”
  • Japanese: “イギリス主権基地領域アクロティリおよびデケリア”
  • Japanese: “ソブリン基地”
  • Javanese: “Akrotiri lan Dhekelia”
  • Kalmyk: “Акротирин болн Декелин Һазр”
  • Kannada: “ಅಕ್ರೋಟರಿ ಮತ್ತು ಧೇಕೆಲಿಯಾ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Акротири бла Декелия”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Акротири эм Декелия”
  • Kazakh: “Акротири және Декелия”
  • Kazakh: “Акротири мен Декелия”
  • Kirghiz: “Акротири жана Декелия”
  • Korean: “아크로티리 데켈리아”
  • Kurdish: “Akrotîrî û Dekelya”
  • Ladin: “Akrotiri y Dhekelia”
  • Latin: “Acroterium et Decelea”
  • Latvian: “Akrotiri un Dekelija”
  • Ligurian: “Akrotiri e Dhekelia”
  • Limburgan: “Akrotiri en Dhekelia”
  • Lithuanian: “Akrotiris ir Dekelija”
  • Low German: “Akrotiri en Dhekelia”
  • Macedonian: “Акротири и Декелија”
  • Malay: “Akrotiri dan Dhekelia”
  • Malayalam: “അക്രോത്തിരിയും ദകേലിയയും”
  • Manx: “Akrotiri as Dhekelia”
  • Marathi: “आक्रोतिरी आणि ढेकेलिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Akrotiri kap Dhekelia”
  • Moksha: “Акротири ди Дэкэлия”
  • Northern Frisian: “Akrotiri an Dekelia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akrotiri og Dhekelia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akrotíri og Dekélia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akrotiri og Dhekelia”
  • Norwegian: “Akrotiri og Dekelia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Akrotiri e Dhekelia”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Acrotiri and Ðecelia”
  • Oriya: “ଆକ୍ରୋତିରି ଓ ଢେକେଲିଆ”
  • Ossetian: “Акротири æмæ Декели”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਕਰੋਤਿਰੀ ਅਤੇ ਧਕੇਲੀਆ”
  • Persian: “آکراتاری و داکیلیا”
  • Persian: “اکراتاری و داکیلیا”
  • Polish: “Akrotiri i Dhekelia”
  • Portuguese: “Acrotíri e Deceleia”
  • Portuguese: “Acrotíri e Decelia”
  • Portuguese: “Acrotíri e Decélia”
  • Portuguese: “Akrotiri e Dekélia”
  • Portuguese: “Akrotiri e Dhekelia”
  • Portuguese: “Akrotiri-Dhekelia”
  • Portuguese: “Bases Britânicas Soberanas”
  • Pushto: “اکروتيري او دېکېليا”
  • Romanian: “Akrotiri şi Dhekelia”
  • Romanian: “Akrotiri și Dhekelia”
  • Russian: “Акротири и Декелия”
  • Rusyn: “Акротири и Декелия”
  • Serbian: “Akrotiri i Dekelija”
  • Serbian: “Акротири и Декелија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Akrotiri i Dekelija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Akrotiri i Dhekelia”
  • Shan: “ဢႅၵ်ႉရူဝ်ႇထီးရီႇ လႄႈ တိၵ်ႇၶေးလီးယႃး”
  • Sindhi: “اڪروتري ۽ ڍيڪيليا”
  • Sinhala: “අකොටිරි සහ දෙකෙලියා”
  • Sinhala: “අකොටිරි සහ ධෙකිලා”
  • Sinhala: “අකොරොටිරි සහ ඩෙකෙලියා”
  • Slovak: “Akrotiri a Dekeleia”
  • Slovak: “Akrotíri a Dekéleia”
  • Slovak: “Suverénne základňové územia Akrotiri a Dekeleia”
  • Slovenian: “Akrotiri in Dekelija”
  • Slovenian: “Akrotiri in Dhekelia”
  • Somali: “Akrotiri and Dhekelia”
  • Spanish: “Acrotiri y Dekelia”
  • Spanish: “Acrotiri y Dhekelia”
  • Spanish: “Akrotiri y Dekelia”
  • Spanish: “Akrotiri y Dhekelia”
  • Spanish: “Bases Soberanas de Acrotiri y Dhekelia”
  • Sundanese: “Akrotiri jeung Dhekelia”
  • Sundanese: “Akrotiri jeung Dhékélia”
  • Swahili: “Akrotiri na Dhekelia”
  • Swedish: “Akrotiri och Dhekelia”
  • Swedish: “Brittiska suveräna basområdena på Cypern”
  • Tagalog: “Agrotur at Dikelya”
  • Tagalog: “Akrotiri at Dekelya”
  • Tagalog: “Akrotiri at Dhekelia”
  • Tagalog: “Akrotiri at Dikelya”
  • Tagalog: “Dhekelia at Akrotiri”
  • Tagalog: “Kanlurang Soberanong Baseng Area”
  • Tagalog: “Kanluraning Soberanong Baseng Area”
  • Tagalog: “Silanganing Soberanong Baseng Area”
  • Tagalog: “Soberanong mga Baseng Area ng Akrotiri at Dhekelia”
  • Tagalog: “Southern Sovereign Base Area”
  • Tagalog: “Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia”
  • Tamil: “அக்ரோடிரி அண்ட் தேகேலியா”
  • Tamil: “அக்ரோத்திரியும் டெகேலியாவும்”
  • Tatar: “Акротири һәм Декелия”
  • Telugu: “ఆక్రొతిరి & ఢెకెలియా”
  • Telugu: “ఆక్రొతిరి మరియు ఢెకెలియా”
  • Telugu: “ఆక్రోటిరి, ఢెకెలియా”
  • Thai: “แอโครเทียรีและดิเคเลีย”
  • Turkish: “Agrotur ve Dikelya”
  • Turkish: “Ağrotur ve Dikelya”
  • Turkish: “Akrotiri ve Dhekelia”
  • Ukrainian: “Акротирі і Декелія”
  • Ukrainian: “Акротірі і Декалія”
  • Ukrainian: “Акротірі та Декалія”
  • Ukrainian: “Акротірі та Декелія”
  • Urdu: “ایکروتیری و دیکیلیا”
  • Uzbek: “Akrotiri va Dekeliya”
  • Venetian: “Akrotiri e Dhekelia”
  • Vietnamese: “Akrotiri dan Dhekelia”
  • Vietnamese: “Akrotiri và Dhekelia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Akrotiri ngan Dhekelia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Akrotiri ngan Dhekelya”
  • Welsh: “Akrotiri a Dhekelia”
  • Welsh: “Nodyn:Country data Akrotiri a Dhekelia”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایکروتیری تے دیکیلیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿克罗蒂里搭泽凯利亚”
  • Yoruba: “Akrotiri àti Dhekelia”
  • Yue Chinese: “塞浦路斯英屬基地區”
  • Zeeuws: “Akrotiri en Dhekelia”
  • “Akrotiri & Dhekelia”
  • “Akrotiri and Dhekelia”
  • “Sovereign Base Areas”

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