Map of Cyprus

Cyprus is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 35.0° N, 33.0° E. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Cyprus is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Cyprus is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Cyprus covers about 9,251 km² (3,572 sq mi). That makes it the 164th-largest country in the world by area and the 44th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 5 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 1,442,614, the 153rd-largest in the world and the 45th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.0% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Cyprus has an average population density of about 156 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 45th by population and 44th by area.

The seat of government is Nicosia, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official languages are Greek and Turkish. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Cyprus carries the ISO country codes CY and CYP, dials on the international calling code +357 and uses the .cy internet domain.

Cyprus has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 35.0° N, 33.0° E places it about 3,885 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, within the wider region of Asia.

The interactive map above is centred on 35.0° N, 33.0° E and opens at zoom level 8, framing Cyprus within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Nicosia. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Cyprus lies about 3,885 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Cyprus keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Euro (EUR, €).

The official languages are Greek and Turkish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +357 and websites commonly use the .cy internet domain.

In short, Cyprus is an island nation in Asia, with no land borders. Its capital is Nicosia. Cyprus has a population of about 1,442,614 and covers around 9,251 km² (3,572 sq mi), ranking it 153rd in the world by population and 164th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Cyprus.

The flag of Cyprus has a white field, at the center of which is a copper-colored silhouette of the Island of Cyprus above two green olive branches crossed at the stem.

The flag of Cyprus is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.