Karpaz
Karpaz is a slender, 80-km long peninsula in the northeast of Northern Cyprus. It's mostly rugged and thinly populated: there are hotels, but on nothing like the scale of the Kyrenia or Turkish mainland tourist strips. In 2023 the population was 20,245.
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula on the island of Cyprus
- Also known as: “Carpas Peninsula”, “Halbinsel Karpas”, “Karpas Peninsula”, “Karpas Yarımadası”, “Karpaşa”, “Karpashalbinsel”, “Karpasia”, “Karpass”, “Karpassia”, “Karpaz Peninsula”, “Kırpaşa”, “Kırpaşa Yarımadası”, “Peninsula de Karpas”, “Peninsula de Karpasia”, “Peninsula of Karpasia”, “Penisola di Karpas”, “Penisola di Karpassia”, “Penisola di Karpaz”, “Κραπασαία”, “Карпасия”, “Карпасский полуостров”, “קירפאשה”, “קירפשה”, “קרפז”, and “卡帕斯半島”
Karpaz
- Category: landform
- Location: Famagusta district, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.6587° or 35° 39′ 32″ north
Longitude
34.5236° or 34° 31′ 25″ east
Elevation
281 metres (922 feet)
Open location code
8G7PMG5F+FC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peninsula
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Karpaz” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شبه جزيرة كارباس”
- Armenian: “Կարպաս”
- Azerbaijani: “Karpaz yarımadası”
- Basque: “Karpas penintsula”
- Bosnian: “Karpas”
- Cebuano: “Karpasía”
- Chinese: “卡尔帕斯半岛”
- Chinese: “卡爾帕斯半島”
- Croatian: “Karpas”
- Czech: “Karpas”
- Dutch: “Karpas”
- Dutch: “Karpass Peninsula”
- Esperanto: “Duoninsulo Karpasia”
- Esperanto: “Karpasia duoninsulo”
- Finnish: “Karpasía”
- French: “péninsule de Karpas”
- French: “Péninsule de Karpas”
- Georgian: “კარპასის ნახევარკუნძული”
- German: “Karpas Halbinsel”
- German: “Karpas”
- German: “Karpaz”
- Greek: “Karpasía”
- Greek: “Καρπασία”
- Greek: “Καρπάσου χερσόνησος”
- Hebrew: “קרפאז”
- Indonesian: “Semenanjung Karpas”
- Italian: “Karpas”
- Japanese: “カルパス半島”
- Korean: “카르파스반도”
- Latvian: “Karpasas pussala”
- Lithuanian: “Karpazo pusiasalis”
- Persian: “شبهجزیره کارپاس”
- Polish: “Karpas”
- Portuguese: “Península de Karpas”
- Russian: “Карпас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Karpas”
- Slovenian: “Karpas”
- Spanish: “Península de Karpas”
- Spanish: “Península de Karpasia”
- Swedish: “Karpasshalvön”
- Turkish: “Karpaz Yarımadası”
- Ukrainian: “Карпас”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ نما کارپاس”
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