Famagusta
Famagusta is a city in Northern Cyprus, with a population of 55,648 in 2019. It's a seaport and tourist resort and has a walled old centre created in the 13th century.
- Type: City with 42,500 residents
- Description: city in northern Cyprus
- Also known as: “Ammochostos”, “Ammochostus”, “Ammokhostos”, “Gazi Magosa”, “Gazimağusa”, and “Mağusa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque - St. Nicholas’s Cathedral and Ganchvor Sourp Asdvadzadzin.
Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque - St. Nicholas’s Cathedral
Mosque
The Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque, originally known as the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas and later as the Saint Sophia Mosque of Mağusa, is the largest medieval building in Famagusta, Cyprus.
Ganchvor Sourp Asdvadzadzin
Church
Nestorian Church of St. George the Exiler
Historic building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Varosha.
Varosha
Suburb
Famagusta
- Categories: city in Cyprus, border city, and locality
- Location: Ammóchostos, Famagusta district, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.1205° or 35° 7′ 14″ north
Longitude
33.9388° or 33° 56′ 20″ east
Population
42,500
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CY FMG
Open location code
8G7M4WCQ+6G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Famagusta” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፋማጉስታ”
- Arabic: “الماغوصة”
- Arabic: “فاماغوستا”
- Arabic: “مدينة فاماغوستا”
- Armenian: “Ֆամագուստա”
- Asturian: “Famagusta”
- Azerbaijani: “Famagusta”
- Azerbaijani: “Famaqusta”
- Basque: “Famagusta”
- Belarusian: “Фамагуста”
- Bengali: “ফামাগুস্তা”
- Bengali: “ফামাগোস্তা”
- Bosnian: “Famagusta”
- Bulgarian: “Фамагуста”
- Catalan: “Famagosta”
- Catalan: “Famagusta”
- Cebuano: “Famagusta”
- Chinese: “法馬古斯塔”
- Chinese: “法马古斯塔”
- Chinese: “阿莫霍斯托斯”
- Croatian: “Famagusta”
- Czech: “Famagusta”
- Danish: “Famagusta”
- Danish: “Farmagusta”
- Dutch: “Ammochostos”
- Dutch: “Famagusta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فاماجوستا”
- Esperanto: “Famagusta”
- Estonian: “Famagusta”
- Finnish: “Ammohostos”
- Finnish: “Famagusta”
- French: “Ammochostos”
- French: “Ammóchostos”
- French: “Ammohostos”
- French: “Famagouste”
- French: “Gazimağusa”
- Gagauz: “Gazimağusa”
- Galician: “Famagusta”
- Georgian: “ფამაგუსტა”
- German: “Ammochostos”
- German: “Ammóchostos”
- German: “Famagusta”
- German: “Gazi Magusa”
- German: “Gazi Mağusa”
- German: “Gazimagusa”
- German: “Gazimağusa”
- German: “Ğazimağusa”
- German: “Magusa”
- German: “Mağusa”
- Greek: “Ammóchostos”
- Greek: “Αμμόχωστος”
- Greek: “Γκαζιμαγούσα”
- Greek: “Φαμαγκούστα”
- Guarani: “Famagusta”
- Gujarati: “ફેમાગુસ્તા”
- Hausa: “Famagusta”
- Hebrew: “פמגוסטה”
- Hindi: “फामागुस्टा”
- Hindi: “फामागुस्ता”
- Hungarian: “Famagusta”
- Hungarian: “Gazimağusa”
- Indonesian: “Famagusta”
- Italian: “Famagosta”
- Italian: “Famagusta”
- Japanese: “アモホストス”
- Japanese: “ガーズィマウサ”
- Japanese: “ガズィマウサ”
- Japanese: “ファマグスタ”
- Javanese: “Famagusta”
- Kannada: “ಫಮಗುಸ್ತ”
- Kazakh: “Фамагуста”
- Kirghiz: “Фамагуста”
- Korean: “가지마구사”
- Korean: “암모호스토스”
- Korean: “파마구스타”
- Latin: “Arsinoë”
- Latin: “Fama Augusta”
- Latvian: “Famagusta”
- Limburgan: “Mağusa”
- Lithuanian: “Famagusta”
- Lithuanian: “Magusa”
- Macedonian: “Амохостос”
- Macedonian: “Фамагуста”
- Malay: “Famagusta”
- Malayalam: “ഫാമഗുസ്ത”
- Marathi: “फॅग्रुस्ता”
- Nepali: “फामागुस्ता”
- Northern Frisian: “Famagusta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ammókhostos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Famagusta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ammókhostos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Famagusta”
- Norwegian: “Famagusta”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Famagosta”
- Oromo: “Famagusta”
- Ossetian: “Фамагустæ”
- Panjabi: “ਫਾਮਾਗੁਸਟਾ”
- Persian: “فاماگوستا”
- Polish: “Ammochosto”
- Polish: “Famagusta”
- Pontic: “Αμμόχωστος”
- Portuguese: “Famagusta”
- Pushto: “فاماگوستا”
- Romanian: “Famagusta”
- Russian: “Аммохостос”
- Russian: “Газимагуса”
- Russian: “Магоса”
- Russian: “Фамагуста”
- Scots: “Famagusta”
- Serbian: “Amohostos”
- Serbian: “Αμμόχωστος”
- Serbian: “Амохостос”
- Serbian: “Фамагуста”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Famagusta”
- Silesian: “Famagusta”
- Sindhi: “فاماگستا”
- Sinhala: “ෆමගස්ටා”
- Sinhala: “ෆැමගස්ටා”
- Sinhala: “ෆැමගුස්ටා, සයිප්රසය”
- Slovak: “Ammochostos”
- Slovak: “Famagusta”
- Slovak: “Gazimağusa”
- Slovak: “Mağusa”
- Slovenian: “Amohostos”
- Slovenian: “Famagusta”
- Slovenian: “Magusa”
- Somali: “Famagusta”
- Spanish: “Famagusta”
- Spanish: “Magosa”
- Swahili: “Famagusta”
- Swedish: “Ammochostos”
- Swedish: “Famagosta”
- Swedish: “Famagusta”
- Swedish: “Gazimağusa”
- Swedish: “Mağusa”
- Swedish: “Αμμόχωστος”
- Tajik: “Фамагуста”
- Tamil: “பாமகுஸ்டா”
- Tamil: “பாமங்குஸ்தா”
- Tatar: “Фамагуста”
- Telugu: “ఫామాగుస్తా”
- Thai: “ฟามากุสตา”
- Turkish: “Famagusta”
- Turkish: “Gazi Mağusa”
- Turkish: “Gazimagosa”
- Turkish: “Gazimağusa, KKTC”
- Turkish: “Gazimağusa, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriye”
- Turkish: “Gazimağusa, Kuzey Kıbrıs”
- Turkish: “Gazimağusa”
- Turkish: “Magosa”
- Turkish: “Mağusa, KKTC”
- Turkish: “Mağusa, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti”
- Turkish: “Mağusa, Kuzey Kıbrıs”
- Turkish: “Magusa”
- Turkish: “Mağusa”
- Ukrainian: “Фамагуста”
- Ukrainian: “Фамаґуста”
- Urdu: “Famagusta”
- Urdu: “فاماگوستا”
- Uzbek: “Famagusta”
- Vietnamese: “Famagusta”
- Waray (Philippines): “Famagusta”
- Western Armenian: “Ֆամակուստա”
- Western Frisian: “Famagusta”
- Western Panjabi: “فاماگوستا”
- Wu Chinese: “阿莫霍斯托斯”
- “Ammohostos”
- “Famagusta”
- “Gazimağusa”
- “Mağusa”
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