Location: Asia
Capital: Nicosia ( 195.000 inhab. excluded the Turkish sector )
Main Cities: Limassol, Famagusta, Larnaca
Population: 786,000
Area: 9,251 km2
Coin: 1 Cyprus pound = 100 cents
Languages: Greek, Turkish
Religions: Orthodox Greek, Moslem
The Independence's Year: 1959

It is an island of the Mediterranean offshore Syria and Turkey, therefore geographically it belongs to Asia. It is the island of Venus, that has risen from the sea along the south coasts, between Limassol and Paphos.
It is a beautiful place, surrounded by an entire sea; crossed by two mountainous chains; studded of simple seaside and mountain resort.
Unfortunately the scandal of the subdivision in two entities, among the part to Greek majority to south and the part occupied by the Turks to north, it is a very ugly thing and for now of difficulty solution.
Certainly to see the barriers of division for the roads of Nicosia is a thing that hurts and of complete absurdity!

Photographies to greater solution can be found to the page The Mediterranean Region Gallery