Nicosia
Nicosia is the centrally located capital of Cyprus and by far the largest city on the island. It also acts as a separate administrative capital for the Nicosia district.
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Notable Places in the Area
Cyprus Museum
Museum
The Cyprus Museum is the oldest and largest archaeological museum in Cyprus. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
University of Cyprus
University
The University of Cyprus is a public research university established in Cyprus in 1989. Photo: UniversityofCypruspics, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Selimiye Mosque (St Sophia Cathedral)
Mosque
Selimiye Mosque, historically known as Cathedral of Saint Sophia or Ayasofya Mosque, is a former Roman Catholic cathedral converted into a mosque, located in North Nicosia. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Walls of Nicosia
Archaeological site
The Venetian Walls are a series of defensive walls which surround Nicosia the capital city of Cyprus. Photo: AncientNicosia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Localities in the Area
Nicosia
North Nicosia is the Turkish Cypriot side of the city of Nicosia and the capital of Northern Cyprus. Photo: Steffen Löwe Gera, CC BY-SA 3.0.Strovolos
Town
Strovolos is a municipality of Nicosia District. With a population of nearly 70,000, it is the second most populated municipality in Cyprus, after Limassol, and the most populated municipality of Nicosia District. Photo: ChristosV, Public domain.
Nicosia
- Type: City
- Description: capital city of Cyprus
- Categories: capital, big city, city in Cyprus and town divided by border
- Location: Nicosia district, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
Latitude 35.1739° or 35° 10' 26.1" north | Longitude 33.3647° or 33° 21' 53" east |
Population 310,000 | IATA airport code NIC |
United Nations Location Code CY NIC | Elevation 147 metres (482 feet) |
OpenStreetMap ID node 1893015330 | GeoNames ID 146268 |
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Niqusya
- Achinese: Nikosia
- Afar: Nikosiya
- Afrikaans: Nicosia
- Akan: Nicosia
- Albanian: Nicosia
- Albanian: Nikosia
- Amharic: ሌፍኮዚያ
- Arabic: Nicosia
- Arabic: الأفقوسية
- Arabic: الأَفْقُوسِيَة
- Arabic: نيقوسيا
- Aragonese: Nicosia
- Armenian: Նիկոսիա
- Asturian: Nicosia
- Avaric: Никосия
- Azerbaijani: Nikosiya
- Bashkir: Никосия
- Basque: Nikosia
- Bavarian: Nikosia
- Belarusian: Нікасія
- Bengali: নিকোসিয়া
- Bosnian: Nikozija
- Breton: Nikozia
- Bulgarian: Никозия
- Catalan: Nicòsia
- Cebuano: Nicosia
- Central Bikol: Nicosia
- Central Kurdish: نیکۆسیا
- Chechen: Никосий
- Chinese: Nicosia
- Chinese: 尼古西亞
- Chinese: 尼科西亚
- Chinese: 尼科西亞
- Chuvash: Икосия
- Chuvash: Никосия
- Crimean Tatar: Lefkoşa
- Croatian: Nikozija
- Czech: Nikósie
- Danish: Nicosia
- Dimli (individual language): Lefkoşa
- Dutch: Nicosia
- Eastern Mari: Никосий
- Egyptian Arabic: نيكوسيا
- English: Lefkosia
- English: Nicosia (Lefkosia)
- Erzya: Никосия ош
- Esperanto: Nikozio
- Estonian: Nikosia
- Faroese: Nikosia
- Fiji Hindi: Nikosia
- Finnish: Nikosia
- French: Nicosie
- Gagauz: Lefkoşa
- Galician: Nicosia - Λευκωσία
- Galician: Nicosia
- Georgian: ნიქოზია
- German: Nikosia
- Greek: Lefkosía
- Greek: Λευκωσία
- Gujarati: નિકોસિયા
- Haitian: Nikozi
- Hakka Chinese: Nicosia
- Hausa: Nicosia
- Hebrew: ניקוסיה
- Hindi: निकोसिया
- Hungarian: Nicosia
- Icelandic: Nikósía
- Ido: Nikosia
- Iloko: Nicosia
- Indonesian: Nikosia
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Nicosia
- Interlingue: Nicosia
- Irish: An Leafcóis
- Irish: Nicosia
- Italian: Lefkosia
- Italian: Lefkoşa
- Italian: Leukōsia
- Italian: Nicosia
- Japanese: ニコシア
- Javanese: Nikosia
- Kabyle: Niqusya
- Kalaallisut: Nicosia
- Kannada: ನಿಕೋಸಿಯ
- Kara-Kalpak: Arqa Nikosiya
- Kara-Kalpak: Nikosiya
- Kazakh: Никосия
- Kinyarwanda: Nikosiya
- Kirghiz: Лефкоша
- Korean: 니코시아
- Ladino: Nikosiya
- Lao: Nicosia
- Latin: Leucosia
- Latin: Nicosia
- Latvian: Lefkosija
- Latvian: Lefkoša
- 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
- Mingrelian: ნიქოზია
- Moksha: Никосия
- Narom: Nicosie
- Neapolitan: Nicosia
- Neapolitan: Nicosìa
- Nepali: निकोज्या
- Nepali: निकोसिया
- Northern Frisian: Nikosia
- Northern Luri: نیکوزیا
- Northern Luri: نیکۊزیا
- Northern Sami: Nikosia
- Norwegian: Nikosia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nikosia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Levkosía
- Norwegian Nynorsk: 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
- Samogitian: Nėkosėjė
- Santali: ᱱᱤᱠᱚᱥᱤᱭᱟ
- Sardinian: Nicosia
- Saterfriesisch: Nicosia
- Saterfriesisch: Nikosia
- Scots: Nicosia
- Scottish Gaelic: Nicosia
- Serbian: Никозија
- Serbo-Croatian: Nikozija
- Shona: Nicosia
- Sicilian: Nicusìa
- Silesian: Ńikozyjo
- Sinhala: නිකොසියා
- Slovak: Nikózia
- Slovenian: Nikozija
- South Azerbaijani: نیکوزیا
- Spanish: Nicosia
- Swahili: Nikosia
- Swedish: Nicosia
- Swiss German: Nikosia
- Tagalog: Nicosia
- Tajik: Никосия
- Tamil: நிகோசியா
- Tamil: நிக்கோசியா
- Tatar: Никосия
- Telugu: నికోసియా
- Thai: นิโคเซีย
- Tibetan: ནེ་ཁོ་ཤི་ཡ།
- Tosk Albanian: Nikosia
- Turkish: 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: نیکوسیا
- Wu Chinese: 尼科西亚
- Yakut: Никосия
- Yiddish: ניקאסיע
- Yoruba: Nicosia
- Yue Chinese: 尼科西亞
Other Places Named Nicosia
In the Area
Localities
Landmarks
- Segway Station CyprusTourist attraction
- Faneroumeni SchoolSchool
- Ömeriye HamamPublic building
- Municipal MarketMarketplace
- Faneroumeni ChurchChurch
- CDA CollegeCollege
Popular Destinations in Cyprus
Escape to a Random Place
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