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Cyprus is , south of . It is one of the world’s oldest civilisations, with a history of over 11,000 years.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Nicosia and Akrotiri and Dhekelia.

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is the capital of Cyprus and is the largest city by far. While it may not boast the same abundance of archaeological sites and lively beaches as other parts of Cyprus, the city's Old Town, with its museums and churches, is still a pleasant place to explore.

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, officially the Sovereign Base Areas of , is a British Overseas Territory made of two non-contiguous areas on the island of Cyprus.

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is a city on the southern coast of Cyprus. With 85,000 residents in 2015, metropolitan is the island's third largest city.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Northern Cyprus and Limassol district.

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The Turkish Republic of is a republic on the north and east side of the . It's a holiday destination with beaches and antiquities set in the Mediterranean Sea 70 km south of , the only country to recognise it.

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The , simply known as Limassol or Lemesos, is one of the six districts of Cyprus. As of 2021, it had a population of 262,238, 75,7% of which was urban The district's capital city is .

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is a region that spans both Cyprus and . This article covers only the southern Greek-Cypriot side of the district; the Turkish-Cypriot side of the district is covered in the and articles.

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The , or simply Larnaca, is one of the six districts of Cyprus. Its capital is . It is bordered on the east by , on the north by and on the west by .

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The , or simply Paphos, is one of the six districts of Cyprus and it is situated in the western part of Cyprus. Its main town and capital is .

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is a region that spans both Cyprus and . This article covers only the southern Greek-Cypriot side of the district; see and for the Turkish-Cypriot side of the district.

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is a region that spans both Cyprus and . The northern segment is by far the largest and includes the city of itself.

Cyprus

Latitude of center
35.05° or 35° 3′ north
Longitude of center
33.25° or 33° 15′ east
Population
885,000
Area
9,250 km² (3,571 miles²)
Elevation
698 metres (2,290 feet)
Capital
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Phone code
.cy
Internet domain
357
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424313406
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
146669
Wiki­data ID
Q229
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Cyprus” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Кипр”
  • Achinese: “Siprus”
  • Afrikaans: “Siprus”
  • Akan: “Saeprɔs”
  • Albanian: “Qipro”
  • Albanian: “Qiproja”
  • Amharic: “ሳይፕረስ”
  • Amharic: “ቆጵሮስ”
  • Amis: “Cyprus”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κύπρος”
  • Angika: “सायप्रस”
  • Arabic: “قبرص”
  • Aragonese: “Chipre”
  • Armenian: “Կիպրոս”
  • Arpitan: “Chipro”
  • Arpitan: “Cipro du Mié-jorn”
  • Arpitan: “Cipro”
  • Arpitan: “rèpublica de Cipro”
  • Arpitan: “Rèpublica de Cipro”
  • Arpitan: “Sipro”
  • Assamese: “চাইপ্ৰাছ”
  • Asturian: “Chipre”
  • Asturian: “República de Xipre”
  • Asturian: “Xipre”
  • Atayal: “Cyprus”
  • Avaric: “Кипр”
  • Awadhi: “साइप्रस”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kipr Respublikası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kipr”
  • Balinese: “Siprus”
  • Bambara: “Cipri”
  • Bashkir: “Кипр Республикаһы”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡыпрыҫ”
  • Basque: “Zipre”
  • Bavarian: “Republik Zypern”
  • Belarusian: “Кіпр”
  • Bengali: “সাইপ্রাস”
  • Betawi: “Kibris”
  • Bhojpuri: “साइप्रस”
  • Bishnupriya: “সাইপ্রাস”
  • Bislama: “Cyprus”
  • Bislama: “Saepras”
  • Bosnian: “Kipar”
  • Brahui: “Sáipras”
  • Breton: “Kiprenez”
  • Breton: “Republik Kiprenez”
  • Bulgarian: “Кипър”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Кипър”
  • Burmese: “ဆိုက်ပရပ်စ်”
  • Burmese: “ဆိုက်ပရပ်စ်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “República de Xipre”
  • Catalan: “Xipre”
  • Cebuano: “Cyprus”
  • Cebuano: “Tsipre”
  • Central Bikol: “Siprus”
  • Central Kanuri: “Cyprus”
  • Central Kurdish: “قوبرس”
  • Chavacano: “Chipre”
  • Chechen: “Кипр”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᎢᏆᏍ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏌᎢᏆᏍ”
  • Chinese: “Ku-pí-lō͘”
  • Chinese: “Sàipǔlùsī”
  • Chinese: “塞浦路斯/賽普勒斯”
  • Chinese: “塞浦路斯”
  • Chinese: “希腊塞浦路斯”
  • Chinese: “賽普勒斯”
  • Church Slavic: “Кѷпръ”
  • Chuvash: “Кипр Республики”
  • Cornish: “Kobros”
  • Cornish: “Kyprus”
  • Corsican: “Cipru”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Qıbrız Cumhuriyeti”
  • Croatian: “Cipar”
  • Croatian: “Republika Cipar”
  • Czech: “Kyperská republika”
  • Czech: “Kypr”
  • Dagbani: “Cyprus”
  • Danish: “Cypern”
  • Danish: “Republikken Cypern”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cumhuriyetê Qıbrısi”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Qıbrıs”
  • Dotyali: “साइप्रस”
  • Dutch: “Cyprus”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Cyprus”
  • Dzongkha: “སཱའི་པྲས”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кипр”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قبرص”
  • Erzya: “Кипр Республикась”
  • Esperanto: “Kipro”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Kipro”
  • Estonian: “Küpros”
  • Estonian: “Küprus”
  • Ewe: “Cyprus”
  • Ewe: “Saiprus nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Chipri”
  • Faroese: “Kýpros”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Cyprus”
  • Finnish: “Kyproksen tasavalta”
  • Finnish: “Kypros”
  • French: “Chypre-Sud”
  • French: “Chypre”
  • French: “Chypriotes”
  • French: “cy”
  • French: “république de Chypre”
  • French: “République de Chypre”
  • Friulian: “Cipri”
  • Fulah: “Kibris”
  • Fulah: “Siipar”
  • Gagauz: “Kipra Respublikası”
  • Galician: “Chipre”
  • Ganda: “Cyprus”
  • Ganda: “Sipuriya”
  • Georgian: “კვიპროსი”
  • German: “Republik Zypern”
  • German: “Südzypern”
  • German: “Zypern”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Cyprus”
  • Gilaki: “قبرس”
  • Goan Konkani: “Cyprus”
  • Goan Konkani: “सायप्रस”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌿𐍀𐍂𐍅𐍃”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐍅𐍀𐍂𐌿𐍃”
  • Greek: “Kipriakí Dhimokratía”
  • Greek: “Kypriakí Dimokratía”
  • Greek: “Kýpros”
  • Greek: “Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία”
  • Greek: “Κύπρος”
  • Guarani: “Chípere”
  • Guarani: “Chipre”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Chip (péyi)”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Chip”
  • Gujarati: “સાયપ્રસ”
  • Haitian: “Chip”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cyprus”
  • Hausa: “Cyprus”
  • Hausa: “Sifurus”
  • Hawaiian: “Kupelo”
  • Hebrew: “קפריסין”
  • Hindi: “साइप्रस”
  • Hungarian: “Ciprus”
  • Hungarian: “Ciprusi Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “cy”
  • Icelandic: “Kýpur”
  • Ido: “Chipro”
  • Igbo: “Cyprus”
  • Iloko: “Cyprus”
  • Iloko: “Kyprus”
  • Inari Sami: “Kypros täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Kypros”
  • Indonesian: “Cyprus”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Siprus”
  • Indonesian: “Siprus”
  • Interlingua: “Cypro”
  • Interlingue: “Cypria”
  • Irish: “an Chipir”
  • Irish: “An Chipir”
  • Italian: “Cipro”
  • Italian: “Repubblica di Cipro”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Saipros”
  • Japanese: “キプロス”
  • Japanese: “キプロス共和国”
  • Javanese: “Siprus”
  • Kabardian: “ДыгъапIэ Къыпрыс”
  • Kabardian: “ДыгъапӀэ Къыпрыс”
  • Kabyle: “Qubrus”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Cyprus”
  • Kalaallisut: “Cypern”
  • Kalaallisut: “Cyperni”
  • Kalmyk: “Кипрудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಪ್ರೊಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿಪ್ರಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸೈಪ್ರಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kipr”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Кипр”
  • Kashmiri: “سایفرس”
  • Kashmiri: “سَیپرس”
  • Kashmiri: “قبرص”
  • Kashubian: “Cyper”
  • Kazakh: “Кипр”
  • Khmer: “ស៊ីប”
  • Kikuyu: “Kuprosi”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Shipure”
  • Kirghiz: “Кипр”
  • Komi: “Кипр”
  • Kongo: “Kipros”
  • Korean: “그리스 남부 키프로스 행정부”
  • Korean: “그리스계 키프로스국”
  • Korean: “끼쁘로스”
  • Korean: “사이프러스 공화국”
  • Korean: “사이프러스”
  • Korean: “키프로스 공화국”
  • Korean: “키프로스”
  • Kurdish: “Kîpros”
  • Kurdish: “قیبرس”
  • Ladin: “Cipre”
  • Ladino: “Repuvlika Kipriyota”
  • Lak: “Кипр”
  • Lao: “ໄຊປຣັສ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດໄຊປຣັດ”
  • Latgalian: “Kipra”
  • Latin: “Cyprus”
  • Latvian: “Kipra”
  • Lezghian: “Кипр”
  • Ligurian: “Çipro”
  • Limburgan: “Cyprus”
  • Lingala: “Sípɛlɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Cipros”
  • Literary Chinese: “賽普勒斯”
  • Lithuanian: “Kipras”
  • Livvi: “Kipru”
  • Lombard: “Cipro”
  • Lombard: “Cipru”
  • Low German: “Cyprus”
  • Low German: “Republiek Zypern”
  • Low German: “Syprus”
  • Low German: “Zyprus”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Cypern”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Shipele”
  • Lule Sami: “Cypråvsså”
  • Luxembourgish: “Zypern”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Chipro”
  • Macedonian: “Кипар”
  • Maithili: “साइप्रस”
  • Malagasy: “Repoblikan’ i Kipra”
  • Malagasy: “Repoblikan’i Kipra”
  • Malagasy: “Sypra”
  • Malay: “Cyprus”
  • Malay: “Kibris”
  • Malayalam: “സൈപ്രസ്”
  • Maltese: “Ċipru”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika ta’ Ċipru”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯤꯄ꯭ꯔꯁ”
  • Manx: “Ceeprey”
  • Manx: “Cyprus”
  • Manx: “Cyprys”
  • Manx: “Ellan Coobyr”
  • Manx: “Phobblaght y Cheeprey”
  • Manx: “Phobblaght y Chyprys”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght y Cheeprey”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght y Chyprys”
  • Manx: “y Cheeprey”
  • Manx: “y Chyprys”
  • Manx: “Yn Cheeprey”
  • Maori: “Haipara”
  • Marathi: “सायप्रस”
  • Mazanderani: “قبرس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Cyprus”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gĭ-dī”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gṳ̆-bī-lô”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cyprus”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kibris”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kıbrıs”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ku-pí-lō·”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ku-pí-lō͘”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kypros”
  • Minangkabau: “Siprus”
  • Mingrelian: “კვიპროსი”
  • Mirandese: “Xipre”
  • Moksha: “Кипра”
  • Mongolian: “Кипр”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “قبرص”
  • Narom: “Chypre”
  • Nauru: “Taiprus”
  • Navajo: “Béésh Łichíiʼii Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Cipro”
  • Nepali: “साइप्रस”
  • Newari: “साइप्रस”
  • North Ndebele: “Cyprus”
  • Northern Frisian: “Zypern”
  • Northern Luri: “قبرس”
  • Northern Sami: “Kypros dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Kypros”
  • Northern Sami: “Kyprosa dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kypros”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Kypros”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kypros”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Republikken Kypros”
  • Norwegian: “Kypros”
  • Norwegian: “Republikken Kypros”
  • Novial: “Kiprus”
  • Obolo: “Saipọrọs”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chipre”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܘܦܪܘܣ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cipros”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “cy”
  • Oriya: “ସାଇପ୍ରସ”
  • Oriya: “ସାଇପ୍ରସ୍”
  • Oromo: “Saayippires”
  • Ossetian: “Кипр”
  • Pali: “सायप्रस”
  • Pampanga: “Cyprus”
  • Pampanga: “Sipre”
  • Pampanga: “Tsipri”
  • Pangasinan: “Kiprô”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਇਪ੍ਰਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Chipre”
  • Persian: “سایپروس”
  • Persian: “قبرس”
  • Picard: “Kipre”
  • Picard: “Républike Kipre”
  • Piemontese: “Cipro”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Siipris”
  • Polish: “Cypr”
  • Pontic: “Κύπρος”
  • Portuguese: “Chipre”
  • Portuguese: “cy”
  • Portuguese: “Cyprus”
  • Portuguese: “República do Chipre”
  • Pushto: “قبرس”
  • Quechua: “Chipre”
  • Quechua: “Kipru”
  • Romanian: “Administrația Greacă a Ciprului de Sud”
  • Romanian: “Cipru”
  • Romanian: “Republica Cipru”
  • Romanian: “Statul Cipriot Grec”
  • Romansh: “Cipra”
  • Rundi: “Izinga rya Shipure”
  • Russia Buriat: “Кипр”
  • Russian: “Кипр”
  • Russian: “Республика Кипр”
  • Rusyn: “Ціпрус”
  • Sakizaya: “Cyprus”
  • Samoan: “Cyprus”
  • Samoan: “Kuperu”
  • Samogitian: “Kėpros”
  • Sango: “Sîpri”
  • Sanskrit: “सायप्रस”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱟᱭᱯᱨᱟᱥ”
  • Sardinian: “Tzipru”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Zypern”
  • Scots: “Cyprus”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cìopras”
  • Serbian: “Kipar”
  • Serbian: “Кипар”
  • Serbian: “Република Кипар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cipar”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kipar”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းသၢႆႉပရႅတ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Cyprus”
  • Shona: “Saipurasi”
  • Sicilian: “Cipru”
  • Silesian: “Cyper”
  • Silesian: “Cypr”
  • Sindhi: “سائپرس”
  • Sindhi: “قبرص”
  • Sinhala: “සයිප්‍රසය”
  • Sinhala: “සයිප්‍රස්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kyproozz tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kypros”
  • Slovak: “Cyperská republika”
  • Slovak: “Cyprus”
  • Slovenian: “Ciper”
  • Somali: “Awdalka Qabrus”
  • Somali: “Jasiirada Qabrus”
  • Somali: “Qubrus”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قیبریس جومهوریتی”
  • Southern Sami: “Syypern”
  • Spanish: “Chipre”
  • Spanish: “cy”
  • Spanish: “República de Chipre”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Sipruskondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⵓⴱⵔⵓⵙ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⵓⴱⵕⵓⵙ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⵓⴱⵕⵓⵚ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵇⵓⴱⵔⵓⵙ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵇⵓⴱⵕⵓⵙ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵇⵓⴱⵕⵓⵚ”
  • Sundanese: “Siprus”
  • Swahili: “Kupro”
  • Swahili: “Saiprasi”
  • Swati: “ISayiphro”
  • Swedish: “Cypern”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Cypern”
  • Swiss German: “Republik Zypere”
  • Swiss German: “Republik Zypern”
  • Tagalog: “Tsipre”
  • Tajik: “Кипр”
  • Talysh: “Junanə Kipr”
  • Tamil: “சைப்பிரசு”
  • Tamil: “சைப்பிரஸ்”
  • Tamil: “சைப்ரஸ்”
  • Taroko: “Cyprus”
  • Tatar: “Кипр Республикасы”
  • Tatar: “Кипр”
  • Telugu: “సైప్రస్”
  • Tetum: “Xipre”
  • Thai: “ไซปรัส”
  • Thai: “ประเทศไซปรัส”
  • Tibetan: “སཱཡེ་པ་རས྄།”
  • Tibetan: “སེ་པི་རི་སི།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሳይፕረስ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Saipras”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Saipalesi”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Republik Zypern”
  • Tsonga: “Cyprus”
  • Tumbuka: “Cyprus”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “قبرص”
  • Turkish: “Güney Kıbrıs Rum Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Güney Kıbrıs Rum Kesimi”
  • Turkish: “Güney Kıbrıs Rum Yönetimi”
  • Turkish: “Güney Kıbrıs”
  • Turkish: “Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Kıbrıs Rum Kesimi”
  • Turkish: “Kıbrıs”
  • Turkmen: “Kipr Respublikasy”
  • Turkmen: “Kipr”
  • Twi: “Cyprus”
  • Tyap: “Kuburut”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Kuburut”
  • Udmurt: “Кипр”
  • Uighur: “سىپرۇس”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіпр”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Cypernska”
  • Urdu: “قبرص”
  • Uzbek: “Kipr”
  • Uzbek: “Qibris Respublikasi”
  • Venetian: “Sipro”
  • Veps: “Kipr”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Síp”
  • Vietnamese: “Síp (Cyprus)”
  • Vietnamese: “Síp”
  • Vlaams: “Cyprus”
  • Vlax Romani: “Cyprus”
  • Volapük: “Sipreän”
  • Võro: “Küprüs”
  • Walloon: “Chîpe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tsipre”
  • Welsh: “Ciprus”
  • Welsh: “cy”
  • Welsh: “Cyprus”
  • Western Armenian: “Կիպրոս”
  • Western Balochi: “قیبریس”
  • Western Frisian: “Syprus”
  • Western Panjabi: “قبرص”
  • Wolof: “Ciipër”
  • Wolof: “Siipar”
  • Wu Chinese: “塞浦路斯”
  • Yakut: “Кипр”
  • Yiddish: “ציפערן”
  • Yiddish: “קיפראס”
  • Yoruba: “Kíprù”
  • Yoruba: “Kúrúsì”
  • Yue Chinese: “塞浦路斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Cyprus”
  • Zhuang: “Cyprus”
  • Zulu: “i-Cyprus”
  • “Chipre”
  • “Chipru”
  • “Cipre”
  • “Cipro”
  • “CY”
  • “CYP”
  • “Kėpros”
  • “Küprüs”
  • “ma Kiposi”
  • “Siprus”
  • “साइप्रस”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Cyprus”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.