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Nicosia

North Nicosia is the Turkish Cypriot side of the divided city of , and the capital of . The city is the economic, political and cultural centre of Northern Cyprus, with many shops, restaurants and shopping malls.
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  • Type: City with 61,400 residents
  • Description: capital of Northern Cyprus
  • Also known as: “N. Nicosia”, “North Nicosia”, and “Northern Nicosia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nicosia Atatürk Stadium and Barbarlık Müzesi.

Stadium
Photo: Seksen iki yüz kırk beş, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a multi-purpose stadium in North Nicosia, . It is the largest stadium in . It is currently used mostly for football matches and hosted some matches for the 2006 ELF Cup.

Museum
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is a museum.

Monument
Photo: Lapost, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The "Imprisoned Graves" are a set of graves in a small located in the Central Jail of Nicosia, where 13 EOKA fighters killed during the Cyprus Emergency were interred.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nicosia and Kizilbash.

Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

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

Town
Photo: Berkeakyuz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town in , near the capital city . It is de facto under the control of . Over the years the town has merged with North Nicosia, making it connurbated with the city. Its population as of 2011 is 11,671.

Nicosia

Latitude
35.2117° or 35° 12′ 42″ north
Longitude
33.3211° or 33° 19′ 16″ east
Population
61,400
Open location code
8G7M686C+MF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 229501573
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Wiki­data ID
Q2762100
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Nicosia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Noord-Nicosia”
  • Albanian: “Nikozia e Veriut”
  • Arabic: “شمال نيقوسيا”
  • Armenian: “Հյուսիսային Նիկոսիա”
  • Asturian: “North Nicosia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimali Lefkoşa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimali Nikosiya”
  • Belarusian: “Паўночная Нікасія”
  • Bengali: “উত্তর নিকোসিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Nikosia Lor”
  • Catalan: “Nicòsia del Nord”
  • Chinese: “北尼科西亚”
  • Czech: “Severní Nikósie”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lefkoşa Zımey”
  • Dutch: “Noord-Nicosia”
  • Dutch: “North Nicosia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شمال نيقوسيا”
  • Esperanto: “Nord-Nikozio”
  • Finnish: “Pohjois-Nikosia”
  • French: “Nicosie-Nord”
  • Galician: “Nicosia do Norte”
  • Georgian: “ჩრდილოეთი ნიქოზია”
  • German: “Nord-Nikosia”
  • German: “Nordteil”
  • Greek: “Βόρεια Λευκωσία”
  • Hebrew: “לפקושה”
  • Hindi: “उत्तर निकोसिया”
  • Hindi: “उत्तरी निकोसिया”
  • Hungarian: “Észak-Nicosia”
  • Icelandic: “Norður-Nikósía”
  • Iloko: “Amianan a Nicosia”
  • Indonesian: “Nikosia Utara”
  • Irish: “an Niocóis Thuaidh”
  • Italian: “Lefkoşa”
  • Italian: “Nicosia Nord”
  • Japanese: “北ニコシア”
  • Javanese: “Nikosia Lor”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Arqa Nikosiya”
  • Korean: “북니코시아”
  • Korean: “북레프코샤”
  • Kurdish: “Nîkosyaya Bakur”
  • Ladino: “Lefkoşa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nord-Nikosia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nordnikosia”
  • Macedonian: “Северна Левкозија”
  • Macedonian: “Северна Никозија”
  • Maithili: “उत्तर निकोसिया”
  • Mazanderani: “شمالی لفکوشا”
  • Minangkabau: “Nikosia Utara”
  • Moksha: “Кельмеширень Никосия”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nuurd Nikosia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nicòsia del Nòrd”
  • Panjabi: “ਉੱਤਰੀ ਨਿਕੋਸੀਆ”
  • Persian: “لفکوشای شمالی”
  • Persian: “نیکوزیای شمالی”
  • Polish: “Nikozja Północna”
  • Polish: “Nikozja”
  • Portuguese: “Nicósia (Norte)”
  • Portuguese: “Nicósia do Norte”
  • Portuguese: “Nicósia”
  • Romanian: “Nicosia de Nord”
  • Russian: “Северная Никосия”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sjeverna Nikozija”
  • Slovenian: “Severna Nikozija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لفکوشا”
  • Spanish: “Lefkoşa Norte”
  • Spanish: “Lefkoşa”
  • Spanish: “Nicosia del Norte”
  • Spanish: “Nicosia Norte”
  • Swedish: “Nordnicosia”
  • Swedish: “norra Nicosia”
  • Swedish: “Norra Nicosia”
  • Talysh: “Kobəsonə Lefkoša”
  • Tamil: “வடக்கு நிக்கோசியா”
  • Tatar: “Төньяк Никосия”
  • Thai: “นอร์ทนิโคเซีย”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey Lefkoşa”
  • Turkish: “Lefkoşa, KKTC”
  • Turkish: “Lefkoşa, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Lefkoşa, Kuzey Kıbrıs”
  • Turkish: “Lefkoşa”
  • Tyap: “A̱za Nikosiya”
  • Tyap: “Nikosiya A̱za”
  • Ukrainian: “Північна Нікосія”
  • Urdu: “شمالی نیکوسیا”
  • Welsh: “Gogledd Nicosia”
  • Western Panjabi: “شمالی نکوسیا”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Nicosia”. Photo: Steffen Löwe Gera, CC BY-SA 3.0.