Nicosia in five emoji

What each emoji refers to

🏛️

The Venetian walls form a circle with eleven bastions, and the dividing line cuts straight across it.

🌊

Nicosia is the one Cypriot city that is not on the coast, though nothing on the island is more than an hour from the sea.

🍇

Commandaria has been made here since antiquity and is often called the oldest named wine still in production.

🕌

The Selimiye mosque is a Gothic cathedral with minarets added, French built and later converted.

⛵

The Cyprus shipping register is one of the largest in the world, which is a paperwork industry rather than a maritime one.

Nicosia at a glance

Country

Cyprus

Coordinates

35.19° N, 33.38° E

First played

28 June 2026

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Nicosia.