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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Anna Anichkova, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula on the island of Cyprus
- Also known as: “Carpas Peninsula”, “Halbinsel Karpas”, “Karpas Peninsula”, “Karpaşa”, “Karpasia”, “Karpaz Peninsula”, and “Peninsula of Karpasia”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Agia Triada and Koroveia.
Agia Triada
Village
Photo: Ansgar Bovet, CC BY 3.0.
Agia Triada, also known as Agias Trias is a village on the Karpas Peninsula, 2 kilometres east of Gialousa, in Cyprus. The village is de jure part of the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus but after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 it, along…
Koroveia
Village
Koroveia is a village in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, located on the Karpas Peninsula. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus.
Agios Symeon
Village
Agios Symeon is a village in Cyprus, located on the Karpas Peninsula. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus. As of 2011, Avtepe had a population of 119. It has always been inhabited by Turkish Cypriots.
Karpaz
- Category: landform
- Location: Famagusta district, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
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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”
- German: “Karpashalbinsel”
- German: “Karpaz”
- Greek: “Karpasía”
- Greek: “Καρπασία”
- 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”
- 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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About Mapcarta. 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 “Karpaz”. Photo: Anna Anichkova, CC BY-SA 3.0.