Nicosia
Nicosia is the capital of Cyprus 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.Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Selimiye Mosque (St Sophia Cathedral)
Selimiye Mosque, historically known as Cathedral of Saint Sophia or Ayasofya Mosque, is a former Christian cathedral converted into a mosque, located in North Nicosia.Nicosia within the walls
Photo: AncientNicosia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Walls of Nicosia, also known as the Venetian Walls, are a series of defensive walls which surround Nicosia, the capital city of Cyprus.
Localities in the Area
Kizilbash
Kizilbash is a northern suburb of Nicosia, Cyprus. De facto, it is under the control of Northern Cyprus.Ayios Dhometios
Photo: Karaol, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ayios Dhometios is a suburb located west of the Cypriot capital Nicosia.
Engomi
Photo: Tom1955, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Engomi is a suburb and municipality of the Cypriot capital Nicosia.
Nicosia
- Type: City with 310,000 residents
- Description: capital of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus (de facto)
- Categories: capital city, big city, city in Cyprus, town divided by border and locality
- Location: Nicosia, Nicosia district, Cyprus, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.1747° or 35° 10' 29" northLongitude
33.3639° or 33° 21' 50" eastPopulation
310,000Elevation
147 metres (482 feet)IATA airport code
NICUnited Nations Location Code
CY NICOpen Location Code
8G7M59F7+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 1893015330OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
146268Wikidata ID
Q3856Nicosia Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Niqusya
- Achinese: Nikosia
- Afar: Nikosiya
- Afrikaans: Nicosia
- Akan: Nicosia
- Albanian: Nicosia
- Albanian: Nikosia
- Albanian: Nikozia
- Amharic: ሌፍኮዚያ
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Λέδραι
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Λήδρα
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Λήδροι
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Λευκοί Θεοί
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Λευκοθεον
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Λευκούπολις
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Λευκωσία
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Λευκών Θεών
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Λευτεῶν
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Λῆδρον
- Arabic: Nicosia
- 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
- 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
- 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
- English: Ledra
- English: Ledrae
- English: Ledroi
- English: Ledron
- English: Lefkosa
- English: Lefkosia
- English: Lefkoşa
- English: Leucopolis
- English: Leucosia
- English: Leucotheon
- English: Leukoi Theoi
- English: Leuteon
- English: Nicosia (Lefkosia)
- English: Nicosie
- 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: 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: Nicosia
- Irish: an Leafcóis
- Irish: an Niocóis
- Italian: Lefkosia
- 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: Ledrae
- Latin: Leucopolis
- 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
- 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: 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Other Places Named Nicosia
In the Area
- CandacasLocality
- KöşklüçiftlikNeighborhood
- KalograesHamlet
- PanagiaHamlet
- LykavitosHamlet
- KöşklüçiftlikSuburb
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Nicosia. Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.