Located in the Middle East, Cyprus is an island in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Turkey.

Cyprus has no land boundaries.

Domain Information

Cyprus is located in ICANN's Asia/Australia/Pacific Region. Anyone located in this region is eligible for .asia domain registrations. If one of your contacts lives in Cyprus you can register a .asia domain.

A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country or a dependent territory.

ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and with certain exceptions corresponds to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.

Cyprus ccTLD: .cy

Country Information

Population

788457 (July 07 est)

Capital

Nicosia

GDP

$16.37 billion (2005 est)

Currency

Cypriot Pound (CYP), Turkish New Lira (YTL)

Internet Hosts

36964 (2007)

Internet Users

356600 (2006)