Official Languages

Modern Greek · Modern Greek (biblical terms)

Languages spoken here

Bulgarian (secondary) · Cypriot Arabic (secondary) · Egyptian Arabic (secondary) · Georgian (secondary) · Hindi (secondary) · Levantine Arabic (secondary) · Modern Greek (secondary) · Modern Greek (biblical terms) (secondary) · Polish (secondary) · Polish (Goralian) (secondary) · Romanian (secondary) · Romanian (Moldovan) (secondary) · Russian (secondary) · Russian (Pre-1918) (secondary) · Turkish (secondary) · Ukrainian (secondary) · Vietnamese (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Cyprus

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Cypriots, Greek	817000	Greek	Christianity
Cypriots, Turkish	248000	Turkish	Islam
Romanian	29000	Romanian	Christianity
Americans, U.S.	27000	English	Christianity
Bulgarian	27000	Bulgarian	Christianity
Pontic Greek	25000	Pontic	Christianity
Greek	22000	Greek	Christianity
Ukrainian	22000	Ukrainian	Christianity
British	20000	English	Christianity
South Asian, general	17000	Hindi	Buddhism
Arab, Syrian	16000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Georgian	14000	Georgian	Christianity
Filipino, Tagalog	13000	Tagalog	Christianity
Russian	13000	Russian	Christianity
Sinhalese, general	10000	Sinhala	Buddhism
Vietnamese	8400	Vietnamese	Buddhism
Arab, Egyptian general	4400	Arabic, Egyptian	Islam
Polish	4000	Polish	Christianity
Romani, Carpathian	1500	Romani, Carpathian	Non-Religious
Arab, Maronite	1000	Arabic, Cypriot	Christianity
Jewish, Greek	300	Greek	Judaism

Languages

18 languages recorded here.

Arabic, Cypriot

Arabic, Egyptian

Arabic, Levantine

Bulgarian

English

Georgian

Greek

Hindi

Polish

Pontic

Romani, Carpathian

Romanian

Russian

Sinhala

Tagalog

Turkish

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

All catalogue fields

150 fields recorded

rog3: CY
iso3: CYP
iso2: CY
ctry: Cyprus
poplpeoples: 1341000
cntpeoples: 21
cntpeopleslr: 3
poplpeopleslr: 266000
jpscalectry: 3
rol3officiallanguage: ell
officiallang: Greek
rlg3primary: 1
religionprimary: Christianity
percentchristianity: 71.232651871076
percentevangelical: 1.7319403070847
c_10_40window: N
rog2: EUR
continent: Europe
regioncode: 10
regionname: Europe, Western
workersneeded: 7
harvest_rog3: CY
harvest_iso3: CYP
harvest_iso2: CY
harvest_owcountrycode: CYPR
harvest_ethnologuecountrycode: CY
harvest_countrynumber: 57
harvest_ctry: Cyprus
harvest_ctryshort: Cyprus
harvest_countrynamechinese: 塞浦路斯
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 塞浦路斯
harvest_countrynamedutch: Cyprus
harvest_countrynamefrench: Chypre
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort: Chypre
harvest_countrynamegerman: Zypern
harvest_countrynamegermanshort: Zypern
harvest_countrynameindonesian: Siprus
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort: Siprus
harvest_countrynameitalian: Cipro
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Cipro
harvest_countrynamekorean: 키프로스
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort: 키프로스
harvest_countrynamenorwegian: Kypros
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort: Kypros
harvest_countrynameportuguese: Chipre
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort: Chipre
harvest_countrynamerussian: Кипр
harvest_countrynamerussianshort: Кипр
harvest_countrynamespanish: Chipre
harvest_countrynamespanishshort: Chipre
harvest_countrynamevietnamese: Síp
harvest_countrynamevietnameseshort: Síp
harvest_chineseconcatenationprefix: 在
harvest_frenchconcatenationprefix: de
harvest_germanconcatenationprefix: in
harvest_indonesianconcatenationprefix: di
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harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix: ở
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harvest_population: 1371000
harvest_populationsource: UN Country Population (2025)
harvest_prayercastvideo: https://prayercast.com/cyprus.html
harvest_waldnerguide: prayer-guide-cy.pdf
harvest_unmap: https://un.org/geospatial/content/cyprus
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harvest_c_10_40window: N
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harvest_literacysource: Ethnologue
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harvest_rol3secondarylanguage: tur
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harvest_rlg4primary: 4
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harvest_pctbahai: 0
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harvest_pctchinese: 0.04
harvest_pcthindu: 0.15
harvest_pctislam: 23.67
harvest_pctsikh: 0.03
harvest_pctjudaism: 0.02
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harvest_pctother: 0
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harvest_pctchristianprotestant: 0.48
harvest_pctchristianindependent: 0.25
harvest_pctchristiananglican: 0.33
harvest_pctchristianromancatholic: 1.59
harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic: 66.31
harvest_pctchristianmarginal: 0.46
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated: 3
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing: 0
harvest_pctchristianother: 0
harvest_pctchristianextra: 0
harvest_rop1: A003
harvest_hdiyear: 2015
harvest_hdivalue: 0.856
harvest_hdirank: 33
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harvest_flashmapzoomy: -481
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harvest_googlemaplng: 33
harvest_ctrylatitude: 35.126413
harvest_ctrylongitude: 33.429859
harvest_securitylevel: 0
harvest_ethnolinguisticmap: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe/cyprus_ethnic_1973.jpg
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/cyprus/
harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode: 204
harvest_poplgrowthrate: 0.9345794392523363
harvest_godreportsurl: http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=cy&joshua=cy
harvest_datareportalurl: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-cyprus
harvest_internetusage: 84
harvest_internetusagesourceyear: 2018
harvest_areasquaremiles: 3571
harvest_areasquarekilometers: 9251
harvest_populationpersquaremile: 215
harvest_countryphonecode: 357
harvest_owpctchristian1986: 79
harvest_owpctevangelical1986: 0.4
harvest_owpctchristian1993: 77.90000000000001
harvest_owpctevangelical1993: 0.4
harvest_owpctchristian2001: 74.09
harvest_owpctevangelical2001: 0.2
harvest_religiondatayear: 2010
harvest_internetctrycode: .cy
harvest_worldfactbookurl: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/cyprus
harvest_source: pjj
harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00