Everything you need to know about Cyprus
Explore Cyprus from Paphos and the Troodos villages to Nicosia, Kyrenia and the long Karpas Peninsula. Place sixteen cities and towns, discover twenty sights across the island, read ten illustrated topics and begin Greek or Turkish.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Cyprus
Mountains, coastlines and settlement centres across the whole island.
Know the shape of the country
Place sixteen cities and towns across the whole island, including northern Cyprus. Pins mark representative settlement centres on a physical coastline, with one pin for divided Nicosia. The two learning groups are separate from administrative districts. Coastline: Natural Earth, public domain. The map does not show administrative boundaries, crossing points or routes.
Places worth visiting
Essential ยท Archaeology
Kato Paphos mosaics
The archaeological area at Kato Paphos preserves Roman-period houses with mosaic floors showing mythological scenes. It forms part of the Paphos World Heritage property, which also includes Palaipafos at Kouklia.
Twenty places across Cyprus, including eight sights in the north: Kyrenia, Bellapais, Saint Hilarion, Famagusta, Salamis, Bรผyรผk Han, Kantara and Apostolos Andreas. Learn their locations and histories, with current crossing and access arrangements checked separately. Essential and Worth a detour are learning priorities. Pins identify places across the island, not routes, entrances or guarantees of access. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Greek with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
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