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Paphos district

Paphos

Paphos is a town at the southwestern tip of , between the coast and the Troodos Mountains. The city is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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  • Type: City with 32,900 residents
  • Description: town in Cyprus
  • Also known as: “Gazibaf”, “Néa Páfos”, “New Paphos”, “Pafos”, “Páfos”, and “Paphos, Cyprus”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kato Paphos Castle and Saranta Kolones.

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Paphos Castle is located at the western end of the city port. It was originally a Byzantine fortress built to protect the port. Today, the visitor can see the Western Frankish Tower with the Venetian additions as restored by the Ottomans in 1592, according to a relevant inscription above the entrance of the castle.

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is a ruined medieval fortress inside the Paphos Archaeological Park and it is located just north of the harbour of Paphos, on the island of .

Museum
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is a museum in Paphos, western . It contains items ranging in age from the Neolithic to 1700 AD, with five rooms showcasing exhibits dating from the Neolithic era to the Middle Ages.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Geroskipou Municipality and Chloraka.

Town
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Geroskipou is a coastal village in , east of Paphos. Its current population is approximately 7,000 and it is the second largest municipality in the .

Town
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is a village in the of , 3 km north of Paphos. The town is host to Akritas Chlorakas, a Cypriot First Division football team.

Town
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is one of the largest villages in Paphos, . It is spread over a wide area and not only borders Paphos but also the villages of Chlorakas, , Tala, and . It has a population of more than 4,000 people.

Paphos

Latitude
34.7744° or 34° 46′ 28″ north
Longitude
32.4232° or 32° 25′ 23″ east
Population
32,900
Elevation
81 metres (266 feet)
IATA airport code
PFO
United Nations Location Code
CY PFO
Open location code
8G6JQCFF+Q7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5614350943
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
146214
Wiki­data ID
Q180918
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Paphos” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بافوس”
  • Arabic: “مدينة بافوس”
  • Armenian: “Պաֆոս”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pafos”
  • Basque: “Pafos”
  • Belarusian: “Пафас”
  • Bengali: “পাফোস”
  • Bosnian: “Pafos”
  • Breton: “Pafos”
  • Bulgarian: “Пафос”
  • Burmese: “ပေးဖော့စ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Baffa”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat de Pafos”
  • Catalan: “Nova Pafos”
  • Catalan: “Pafos”
  • Catalan: “Paphos”
  • Cebuano: “Paphos”
  • Chinese: “帕弗”
  • Chinese: “帕福士”
  • Chinese: “帕福斯”
  • Croatian: “Paf”
  • Croatian: “Pafos”
  • Croatian: “Paphos”
  • Czech: “Pafos”
  • Czech: “Paphos”
  • Danish: “Pafos”
  • Danish: “Paphos”
  • Dutch: “Kato Paphos”
  • Dutch: “Pafos”
  • Dutch: “Paphos”
  • Esperanto: “Pafo”
  • Esperanto: “Pafoso”
  • Estonian: “Paphos”
  • Finnish: “Pafos”
  • Finnish: “Páfos”
  • Finnish: “Paphos”
  • French: “Pafos”
  • French: “Páfos”
  • French: “Paphos”
  • Galician: “Paphos”
  • Georgian: “პაფოსი”
  • German: “Nea Paphos”
  • German: “Pafos”
  • German: “Paphos”
  • Greek: “Παφος”
  • Greek: “Πάφος”
  • Gujarati: “પેફૉસ”
  • Gujarati: “પેફોસ”
  • Hebrew: “פאפוס”
  • Hebrew: “פפוס”
  • Hindi: “पाफोस”
  • Hindi: “पेफॉस”
  • Hungarian: “Páfosz”
  • Icelandic: “Pafos”
  • Indonesian: “Paphos”
  • Interlingue: “Pafos”
  • Irish: “Paphos”
  • Italian: “Pafo”
  • Italian: “Paphos”
  • Japanese: “パフォス”
  • Kannada: “ಪೆಪೋಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಯಾಫೋಸ್”
  • Korean: “바프”
  • Korean: “파포스”
  • Latin: “Paphos”
  • Latin: “Paphus”
  • Latvian: “Pafa”
  • Limburgan: “Pafos”
  • Lithuanian: “Pafas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pafosas”
  • Macedonian: “Пафос”
  • Malagasy: “Pafôsy”
  • Malay: “Paphos”
  • Malayalam: “പാഫോസ്”
  • Marathi: “पॅफॉस”
  • Marathi: “पेफॉस”
  • Moksha: “Пафос”
  • Mongolian: “Пафос”
  • Nepali: “पफोस”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pafos (Stää)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pafos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pafos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Páfos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paphos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Páfos”
  • Norwegian: “Pafos”
  • Norwegian: “Páfos”
  • Ossetian: “Пафос (Кипр)”
  • Ossetian: “Пафос”
  • Persian: “پافوس”
  • Polish: “Pafos”
  • Polish: “Paphos”
  • Pontic: “Πάφος”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Pafos”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Paphos”
  • Portuguese: “Pafos”
  • Portuguese: “Paphos”
  • Romanian: “Paphos”
  • Russian: “Пафос”
  • Scots: “Paphos”
  • Serbian: “Pafos”
  • Serbian: “Πάφος”
  • Serbian: “Пафос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pafos”
  • Sicilian: “Pafu”
  • Silesian: “Pafos”
  • Sinhala: “පපොස්”
  • Sinhala: “පාපොස්”
  • Slovak: “Pafos”
  • Slovak: “Paphos”
  • Slovenian: “Pafos”
  • Slovenian: “Paphos, Ciper”
  • Spanish: “Pafos”
  • Spanish: “Páfos”
  • Spanish: “Paphos”
  • Swahili: “Pafo”
  • Swedish: “Pafos”
  • Swedish: “Paphos”
  • Tagalog: “Paphos”
  • Tamil: “பாபிஎஸ்”
  • Tamil: “போபோஸ்”
  • Telugu: “పాఫోస్”
  • Thai: “ปาโฟส”
  • Thai: “แพฟอส”
  • Turkish: “Baf”
  • Turkish: “Paphos”
  • Turkish: “Πάφος”
  • Ukrainian: “Пафос”
  • Urdu: “Paphos”
  • Urdu: “پافوس”
  • Venetian: “Pafos”
  • Vietnamese: “Paphos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Paphos”
  • Welsh: “Paphos”
  • Western Armenian: “Պաֆոս”
  • Western Armenian: “Փաֆոս”
  • Western Frisian: “Pafos”
  • Western Panjabi: “پافوس”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕福斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “帕福斯”

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