Cyprus: all about this country and its main places!

General Information About Cyprus

Education

This nation has a number of interesting universities, including University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Technology. On average citizens spend 16 years in school (including higher education).

Culture

There are UNESCO listed sites in this country: Paphos, Painted Churches in the Troodos Region, Choirokoitia. Well known national dishes are: Fasolada.

Population

With a birth growth rate at 1.00%, the median age is 37.90 years. There are 847,000 people here, or 0.011% of the world's population.

Geography

The following languages are spoken by the nation's citizens: Greek, Modern (1453-), Turkish. Nicosia serves as this nation's capital and the country shares a border with United Kingdom. Country territory measures 9,251 km², a postcode system is employed and the main cities are: Limassol, Δήμος Λάρνακας, Δήμος Λεμεσού, Δήμος Λευκωσίας, Strovolos.

Economy

In 2021 the GDP was $28,407,867,534 USD, which ranks it number 97 in the world. The local currency (EUR) is represented by the symbol €.

Good to know

The country's ISO code is CY, the domain name ".cy" is used by the country's websites, phone numbers start with +357 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus is a good place to find out more details on this country.

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