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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  • City with 310,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 155 metres (509 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code NIC
  • Description: capital of Cyprus
  • Also known as
    “Ledra”
    “Ledrae”
    “Ledroi”
    “Ledron”
    “Lefkosa”
    “Lefkosia”
    “Leucopolis”
    “Leucosia”
    “Leucotheon”
    “Leukoi Theoi”
    “Leuteon”
    “Nicosia (Lefkosia)”
    “Nicosie”
    “Λευκωσία - Lefkoşa”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Cyprus Museum and Selimiye Mosque.
A.Savin, FAL.
The , also known as the Cyprus…
A.Savin, FAL.
, historically known as Cathedral…
A.Savin, FAL.
The is a gate in the Nicosia walls, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kizilbash and Engomi.
or Trachonas is a suburb of Nicosia, Cyprus.
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is a suburb and municipality of the capital Nicosia.
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Pallouriotissa is an area of Nicosia, Cyprus, formerly…

Nicosia

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Latitude
35.1747° or 35° 10′ 29″ north
Longitude
33.3639° or 33° 21′ 50″ east
UN/LOCODE
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: “Леўкасія”
  • Belarusian: “Нікасія”
  • Bengali: “নিকোসিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Nikosia”
  • Bosnian: “Nikozija”
  • Breton: “Nikozia”
  • Bulgarian: “Лефкосия”
  • Bulgarian: “Лефкоша”
  • Bulgarian: “Никозия”
  • Catalan: “Nicòsia”
  • Cebuano: “Nicosia”
  • Central Bikol: “Nicosia”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیکۆسیا”
  • Chechen: “Никоси”
  • Chechen: “Никосий”
  • 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”
  • Friulian: “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”
  • Jèrriais: “Nicosie”
  • Kabyle: “Niqusya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nicosia”
  • Kannada: “ನಿಕೋಸಿಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Arqa Nikosiya”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nikosiya”
  • Kashmiri: “نِکوسِیا”
  • Kazakh: “Никосия”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Nikosiya”
  • Kirghiz: “Лефкоша”
  • Kirghiz: “Никосия”
  • Korean: “남니코시아”
  • Korean: “니코시아”
  • Korean: “레프코샤”
  • Korean: “북니코시아”
  • Korean: “북레프코샤”
  • 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”
  • Magahi: “निकोसिया”
  • 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”
  • Mongolian: “Никоси”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نيقوسيا”
  • Neapolitan: “Nicosia”
  • Neapolitan: “Nicosìa”
  • Neapolitan: “Nicosie”
  • 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”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lēdra on Ciprum”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lēdra”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Leucoburh”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lucoste”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Nicosie”
  • 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: “ليڊرا”
  • Sindhi: “ليڊرون”
  • Sindhi: “ليفڪوسيا”
  • Sindhi: “ليڪوٿيئون”
  • Sindhi: “ليوڪوپولس”
  • Sindhi: “ليوڪوسيا”
  • 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།”
  • 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”

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