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North Nicosia or Northern Nicosia (Turkish: Kuzey Lefkoşa [kuˈzej lefˈkoʃa]; Greek: Βόρεια Λευκωσία) is the capital and largest city of the de facto state of Northern Cyprus. It is the northern part of the divided city of Nicosia, and is governed by the Nicosia Turkish Municipality. As of 2011, North Nicosia had a population ...
Kyrenia is considered the capital of tourism in Northern Cyprus, with its numerous hotels, entertainment facilities, vibrant nightlife and shopping areas. [115] In 2012, 62.7% of the visitors in Northern Cyprus stayed in the Girne District during their visit. [110] Out of the 145 hotels in Northern Cyprus, 99 were in the Girne District in 2013 ...
Cyprus[ f ] (/ ˈsaɪprəs / ⓘ), officially the Republic of Cyprus, [ g ] is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is geographically a part of West Asia, but its cultural ties and geopolitics are overwhelmingly Southeast European. Cyprus is also a part of the Middle East and the Levant.
Nicosia[b] (also known as Lefkosia in Greek [c] and Lefkoşa in Turkish [d]) is the capital and largest city of Cyprus. It is the southeasternmost of all EU member states ' capital cities. Nicosia has been continuously inhabited for over 4,500 years and has been the capital of Cyprus since the 10th century.
Note that even though, prior to the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Turkish names existed for some villages/towns, due to political reasons, most of the villages/towns were given a different Turkish name. The largest cities in Cyprus, in order from largest, are Nicosia (capital), Limassol, Larnaca, Paphos, Famagusta and Kyrenia. Map of Cyprus.
As of 2014, the GDP per capita of Northern Cyprus was $15,109, and the GDP was $4.039 billion. The economy grew by 4.9% in 2014 and 2.8% in 2013, meaning that Northern Cyprus is growing faster than the Republic of Cyprus. [9][10] Northern Cyprus has seen economic growth and declining unemployment throughout the 2010s; the unemployment rate in ...
Northern Cyprus – de facto independent republic [1][2][3] on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Officially it is the northern territory of the Republic of Cyprus. [4] The territory includes the Kokkina exclave, a pene-enclave "of" the rest of Cyprus, partly surrounded by sea. The TRNC declared independence in 1983, nine years after a Greek ...
Geography of Cyprus. Cyprus is an island in the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, after the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia, and the 80th-largest island in the world by area. It is located south of the Anatolian Peninsula, yet it belongs to the Cyprus Arc. [1]