Paphos, also spelled Pafos, is a coastal city in southwest Cyprus and the capital of the Paphos District. It lies on the Mediterranean coast about 50 km west of Limassol, the island's largest port, and the two cities are linked by the A6 highway. With an urban population of about 55,000 it is the fourth-largest city in Cyprus, after Nicosia, Limassol and Larnaca. The city has a subtropical-Mediterranean climate and the mildest temperatures on the island, and Paphos International Airport, the second-largest in the country, serves as a gateway to western and southern Cyprus. In classical antiquity two locations were called Paphos, Old Paphos at modern Kouklia and Nea Paphos, and both were at various times the capital of the ancient city-state of Paphos, counted among the city-kingdoms of Cyprus. UNESCO inscribed the ruins of ancient Paphos as a World Heritage Site in 1980, and the site is managed by the Cyprus Department of Antiquities.
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1. Paphos (source article)
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with an urban population of 55,000
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Part Of: Cyprus, Lead, first sentence
Paphos, also spelled Pafos, is a coastal city in southwest Cyprus
On Continent: Asia, Lead, first sentence (continent follows from the country, which the atlas places in Western Asia)
Paphos, also spelled Pafos, is a coastal city in southwest Cyprus
In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Lead
is a coastal city in southwest Cyprus
View the Source2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 34.75, 32.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 34.75, 32.25
34.75 32.25 Csa
3. GeoNames: Paphos - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 146214, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 146214, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
34.77679 32.42451 P PPLA CY 06 35961 81 Asia/Nicosia
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