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Nicosia district
Nicosia

Nicosia

Nicosia is the capital of and is the largest city by far. While it may not boast the same abundance of archaeological sites and lively beaches as other parts of Cyprus, the city's Old Town, with its museums and churches, is still a pleasant place to explore.
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  • Type: City with 310,000 residents
  • Description: Capital of Cyprus
  • Also known as: “Ledra”, “Ledrae”, “Ledroi”, “Ledron”, “Lefkosa”, “Lefkoşa”, “Lefkosia”, “Leucopolis”, “Leucosia”, “Leucotheon”, “Leukoi Theoi”, “Leuteon”, “Nicosia (Lefkosia)”, and “Nicosie”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Cyprus Museum and Selimiye Mosque.

Museum
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The is the oldest and largest archaeological in , located on Museum Street in central Nicosia. The museum is home to the most extensive collection of Cypriot antiquities in the world, and houses artifacts discovered during numerous excavations on the island.

Mosque
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
, historically known as Cathedral of Saint Sophia or Ayasofya Mosque, is a former Christian cathedral converted into a , located in .

Library
Photo: Dcastor, CC0.
The is the national library of the . Its aim is to secure, process, and make available publications that are produced in Cyprus or have to do with Cyprus.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kizilbash and Ayios Dhometios.

Suburb
or Trachonas is a suburb of Nicosia, Cyprus. De facto, it is under the control of .

Suburb
Photo: Karaol, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb west of the Cypriot capital Nicosia. It has a population of 12,456 making it one of Cyprus's biggest municipalities. A portion of with a population of 2,314 is under control.

Suburb
Photo: Tom1955, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb and municipality of the capital Nicosia. In 2011, it had a population of 18,010. Of these, 14,254 were Cypriot citizens. It is a mainly residential neighbourhood with many large villas.

Nicosia

Latitude
35.1747° or 35° 10′ 29″ north
Longitude
33.3639° or 33° 21′ 50″ east
Population
310,000
Elevation
155 metres (509 feet)
IATA airport code
NIC
United Nations Location Code
CY NIC
Open location code
8G7M59F7+VH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1893015330
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
146268
Wiki­data ID
Q3856
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Nicosia” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Nikosia”
  • Afrikaans: “Nicosia”
  • Albanian: “Nicosia”
  • Albanian: “Nikosia”
  • Albanian: “Nikozia”
  • Amharic: “ሌፍኮዚያ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λέδραι”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λευκοθεον”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λευκοί Θεοί”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λευκούπολις”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λευκών Θεών”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λευκωσία”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λευτεῶν”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λήδρα”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λήδροι”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Λῆδρον”
  • Arabic: “الأفقوسية”
  • Arabic: “الأَفْقُوسِيَة”
  • Arabic: “نيقوسيا”
  • Aragonese: “Nicosia”
  • Armenian: “Նիկոսիա”
  • Asturian: “Nicosia”
  • Avaric: “Никосия”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nikosiya”
  • Balinese: “Nikosia”
  • Bashkir: “Никосия”
  • Basque: “Nikosia”
  • Bavarian: “Nikosia”
  • Belarusian: “Нікасія”
  • Bengali: “নিকোসিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Nikosia”
  • Bosnian: “Nikozija”
  • Breton: “Nikozia”
  • Bulgarian: “Никозия”
  • Catalan: “Nicòsia”
  • Cebuano: “Nicosia”
  • Central Bikol: “Nicosia”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیکۆسیا”
  • Chechen: “Никоси”
  • Chechen: “Никосий”
  • Chinese: “Nicosia”
  • Chinese: “尼古西亞”
  • Chinese: “尼科西亚”
  • Chinese: “尼科西亞”
  • Church Slavic: “Лєѵкѡсїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Икосия”
  • Chuvash: “Никосия”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Lefkoşa”
  • Croatian: “Nikozija”
  • Czech: “Nikósie”
  • Danish: “Nicosia”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lefkoşa”
  • Dutch: “Levkosia”
  • Dutch: “Nicosia”
  • Eastern Mari: “Никосий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيكوسيا”
  • Erzya: “Никосия ош”
  • Esperanto: “Nikozio”
  • Estonian: “Nikosia”
  • Faroese: “Nikosia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nikosia”
  • Finnish: “Nikosia”
  • French: “Nicosie”
  • Gagauz: “Lefkoşa”
  • Galician: “Nicosia”
  • Georgian: “ნიქოზია”
  • German: “Nikosia”
  • Greek: “Lefkosía”
  • Greek: “Leukōsia”
  • Greek: “Λευκωσία”
  • Guarani: “Nikósia”
  • Gujarati: “નિકોસિયા”
  • Haitian: “Nikozi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nicosia”
  • Hausa: “Nicosia”
  • Hebrew: “ניקוסיה”
  • Hindi: “निकोसिया”
  • Hungarian: “Nicosia”
  • Icelandic: “Nikósía”
  • Ido: “Nikosia”
  • Iloko: “Nicosia”
  • Inari Sami: “Nikosia”
  • Indonesian: “Nikosia”
  • Interlingua: “Nicosia”
  • Interlingue: “Nicosia”
  • Irish: “an Leafcóis”
  • Irish: “An Leafcóis”
  • Irish: “an Niocóis”
  • Irish: “Nicosia”
  • Italian: “Lefkosia”
  • Italian: “Nicosia”
  • Japanese: “ニコシア”
  • Javanese: “Nikosia”
  • Kabyle: “Niqusya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nicosia”
  • Kannada: “ನಿಕೋಸಿಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Arqa Nikosiya”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nikosiya”
  • Kashmiri: “نِکوسِیا”
  • Kazakh: “Никосия”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Nikosiya”
  • Kirghiz: “Лефкоша”
  • Kirghiz: “Никосия”
  • Korean: “니코시아”
  • Kurdish: “Nîkosya”
  • Ladino: “Nikosiya”
  • Latin: “Ledrae”
  • Latin: “Leucopolis”
  • Latin: “Leucosia”
  • Latin: “Nicosia”
  • Latvian: “Lefkoša”
  • Latvian: “Lefkosija”
  • Latvian: “Nikosija”
  • Ligurian: “Nicosia”
  • Limburgan: “Nicosia”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Nicosia”
  • Lithuanian: “Nikosija”
  • Livvi: “Nikosii”
  • Lombard: “Nicoséa”
  • Low German: “Nikosia”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Nikosia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nikosia”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Lefcosia”
  • Macedonian: “Левкозија”
  • Macedonian: “Никозија”
  • Maithili: “निकोसिया”
  • Malagasy: “Nicosia”
  • Malay: “Nicosia”
  • Malayalam: “നിക്കോഷ്യ”
  • Maltese: “Nikosija”
  • Manx: “Lefkosia”
  • Maori: “Nicosia”
  • Marathi: “निकोसिया”
  • Mazanderani: “نیکوزیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nicosia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nicosia”
  • Minangkabau: “Nikosia”
  • Mingrelian: “ნიქოზია”
  • Moksha: “Никосия”
  • Mongolian: “Никози”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نيقوسيا”
  • Narom: “Nicosie”
  • Neapolitan: “Nicosia”
  • Neapolitan: “Nicosìa”
  • Nepali: “निकोज्या”
  • Nepali: “निकोसिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nikosia”
  • Northern Luri: “نیکوزیا”
  • Northern Sami: “Nikosia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nikosia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Levkosía”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nikosia”
  • Norwegian: “Nikosia”
  • Novial: “Nikosia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nicosia”
  • Oriya: “ନିକୋସିଆ”
  • Ossetian: “Никоси”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਿਕੋਸੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Nicosia”
  • Persian: “نیکوزیا”
  • Piemontese: “Nicosìa”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nikosia”
  • Polish: “Nikozja”
  • Pontic: “Λευκωσίαν”
  • Portuguese: “Nicósia”
  • Pushto: “نيکوزيا”
  • Pushto: “نیکوزیا”
  • Romanian: “Nicosia”
  • Russian: “Никосия”
  • Rusyn: “Нікозія”
  • Samogitian: “Nėkosėjė”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱤᱠᱚᱥᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Nicosia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Nicosia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Nikosia”
  • Scots: “Nicosia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nicosia”
  • Serbian: “Лефкозија”
  • Serbian: “Лефкоша”
  • Serbian: “Никозија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nikozija”
  • Shona: “Nicosia”
  • Sicilian: “Nicusìa”
  • Silesian: “Ńikozyjo”
  • Sindhi: “نڪوسيا”
  • Sinhala: “නිකොසියා, සයිප්‍රසය”
  • Sinhala: “නිකොසියා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Nikosia”
  • Slovak: “Nikózia”
  • Slovenian: “Nikozija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیکوزیا”
  • Spanish: “Nicosia”
  • Swahili: “Nikosia”
  • Swedish: “Nicosia”
  • Swiss German: “Nikosia”
  • Tagalog: “Nicosia”
  • Tagalog: “Nikosya”
  • Tajik: “Никосия”
  • Talysh: “Nikosijə”
  • Talysh: “Nikosiya”
  • Tamil: “நிகோசியா”
  • Tamil: “நிக்கோசியா”
  • Tatar: “Никосия”
  • Telugu: “నికోసియా”
  • Thai: “นิโคเซีย”
  • Tibetan: “ནེ་ཁོ་ཤི་ཡ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Nikosia”
  • Tumbuka: “Nicosia”
  • Turkish: “Lefkoşa”
  • Turkmen: “Lefkoşa”
  • Udmurt: “Никосия”
  • Uighur: “نىكوسىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Нікосія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nikosia”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nikosija”
  • Urdu: “لیفکوسیا”
  • Urdu: “لیفکوشا”
  • Urdu: “نیکوسیا”
  • Uzbek: “Nikosiya”
  • Venetian: “Nicoxia”
  • Veps: “Nikosii”
  • Vietnamese: “Nicosia”
  • Vlaams: “Nicosia”
  • Volapük: “Lefkosia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nicosia”
  • Welsh: “Nicosia”
  • Western Armenian: “Նիկոսիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Nikosia”
  • Western Panjabi: “نکوسیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیکوسیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼科西亚”
  • Yakut: “Никосия”
  • Yiddish: “ניקאסיע”
  • Yoruba: “Nicosia”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼科西亞”
  • Zulu: “i-Nicosia”
  • “Lefcosia”
  • “Lefkoşa”
  • “Nėkosėjė”
  • “Nicosia”
  • “Nicosie”

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