Karpaz

Karpaz is a slender, 80-km long peninsula in the northeast of . 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.
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  • Type: Peninsula
  • Description: peninsula on the island of Cyprus
  • Also known as: “Carpas Peninsula”, “Halbinsel Karpas”, “Karpas Peninsula”, “Karpaşa”, “Karpasia”, “Karpass”, “Karpaz Peninsula”, and “Peninsula of Karpasia”

Karpaz

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
node 13758799640
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peninsula
Geo­Names ID
146539
Wiki­data ID
Q1418724
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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: “卡帕斯半島”
  • 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: “Karpashalbinsel”
  • German: “Karpaz”
  • Greek: “Karpasía”
  • Greek: “Καρπασία”
  • Greek: “Καρπάσου χερσόνησος”
  • Greek: “Κραπασαία”
  • Hebrew: “קירפאשה”
  • Hebrew: “קירפשה”
  • Hebrew: “קרפאז”
  • Hebrew: “קרפז”
  • Indonesian: “Semenanjung Karpas”
  • Italian: “Karpas”
  • Italian: “Karpassia”
  • Italian: “Karpaz”
  • Italian: “Penisola di Karpas”
  • Italian: “Penisola di Karpassia”
  • Italian: “Penisola di Karpaz”
  • Japanese: “カルパス半島”
  • Korean: “카르파스반도”
  • Latvian: “Karpasas pussala”
  • Lithuanian: “Karpazo pusiasalis”
  • Persian: “شبه‌جزیره کارپاس”
  • Polish: “Karpas”
  • Polish: “Karpaz”
  • Polish: “Καρπασία”
  • Portuguese: “Península de Karpas”
  • Russian: “Карпас”
  • Russian: “Карпасия”
  • Russian: “Карпасский полуостров”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karpas”
  • Slovenian: “Karpas”
  • Spanish: “Karpas”
  • Spanish: “Kırpaşa”
  • Spanish: “Peninsula de Karpas”
  • Spanish: “Península de Karpas”
  • Spanish: “Peninsula de Karpasia”
  • Spanish: “Península de Karpasia”
  • Swedish: “Karpasshalvön”
  • Turkish: “Karpas Yarımadası”
  • Turkish: “Karpass Peninsula”
  • Turkish: “Karpaz Yarımadası”
  • Turkish: “Kırpaşa Yarımadası”
  • Turkish: “Καρπασία”
  • Ukrainian: “Карпас”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ نما کارپاس”

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