Cyprus
Famagusta district
Ammóchostos

Famagusta

Famagusta is a city in , 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.
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Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
  • 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 Othello’s Tower.

Mosque
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
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, .

Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Othello Castle, also known as Othello's Tower, is a castle in Famagusta, . It was built by the Lusignans in the 14th century, and was later modified by the Venetians.

Church
Photo: Chris06, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the Armenian Apostolic church in Famagusta, Cyprus.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Varosha.

Suburb
Photo: Andrew Milligan sumo, CC BY 2.0.
is the southern quarter of Famagusta, a de jure territory of , currently under the control of . had a population of 226 in the 2011 census. The area of is 6.19 km2.

Famagusta

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
node 306213529
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
146617
Wiki­data ID
Q193190
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Famagusta” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الماغوصة”
  • Arabic: “فاماغوستا”
  • Arabic: “مدينة فاماغوستا”
  • Armenian: “Ֆամագուստա”
  • Asturian: “Famagusta”
  • Azerbaijani: “Famaqusta”
  • Basque: “Famagusta”
  • Belarusian: “Фамагуста”
  • Bengali: “ফামাগুস্তা”
  • Bengali: “ফামাগোস্তা”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “פמגוסטה”
  • 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”
  • Kannada: “ಫಮಗುಸ್ತ”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Фамагустæ”
  • Persian: “فاماگوستا”
  • Polish: “Ammochosto”
  • Polish: “Famagusta”
  • Pontic: “Αμμόχωστος”
  • Portuguese: “Famagusta”
  • 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”
  • Spanish: “Famagusta”
  • Spanish: “Magosa”
  • Swedish: “Ammochostos”
  • Swedish: “Famagosta”
  • Swedish: “Famagusta”
  • Swedish: “Gazimağusa”
  • Swedish: “Mağusa”
  • Swedish: “Αμμόχωστος”
  • Tamil: “பாமகுஸ்டா”
  • Tamil: “பாமங்குஸ்தா”
  • 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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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 “Famagusta”. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.