Paphos District ( el, Επαρχία Πάφου, tr, Baf kazası) is one of the six

districts of Cyprus Cyprus is divided into six districts ( gr, επαρχίες; tr, kaza), whose capitals share the same name. The districts are subdivided into municipalities and communities. The districts of Cyprus are listed in the table below. Note: Nor ...

and it is situated in the western part of Cyprus. Its main town and

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Paphos Paphos ( el, Πάφος ; tr, Baf) is a coastal city in southwest Cyprus and the capital of Paphos District. In classical antiquity, two locations were called Paphos: Old Paphos, today known as Kouklia, and New Paphos. The current city of Pap ...

. The entire district is controlled by the internationally recognized government of

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...

. There are four municipalities in Paphos District:

Yeroskipou Geroskipou ( el, Γεροσκήπου; tr, Yeroşibu) is a coastal village in Cyprus, east of Paphos. Its current population is approximately 7,000 and it is the second largest municipality in the Paphos District. Yeroskipou, with its remarkable ...

Peyia Peyia (also spelt ''Pegeia''; el, Πέγεια) is a town in the Paphos District of Cyprus. Pegeia is situated mainly on the steep slopes of the coastal hills inland from Coral Bay, at the southern end of the Akamas Peninsula, and it lies 14&nb ...

, and

Polis Chrysochous Polis (or Polis Chrysochous; el, Πόλη Χρυσοχούς or Πόλις Χρυσοχούς, tr, Poli) is a town at the north-west end of the island of Cyprus, at the centre of Chrysochous Bay, and on the edge of the Akamas peninsula nature ...

. The area of the district is 1,396 km², which constitutes the 15.1% of the total area of the island, and the population in 2011 was 90,295. Its coastal area is characterized by gulfs and coves, capes and points, beaches and tiny isles. The district can be divided into three morphological regions: the coastal plain, lying mainly below 200 metres, the hilly area extending from plain up to the igneous rocks of Paphos forest and the mountainous region, lying mainly on the igneous rocks of the Paphos forest. North-west of the District is the

Akamas Akamas (Greek: , tr, Akama), is a promontory and cape at the northwest extremity of Cyprus with an area of 230 square kilometres. Ptolemy described it as a thickly wooded headland, divided into two by summits mountain rangerising towards the ...

peninsula which contains a national park where the

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is a protected animal.

Settlements

According to ''Statistical Codes of Municipalities, Communities and Quarters of Cyprus'' per the Statistical Service of Cyprus (2015), Paphos District has 4 municipalities and 121 communities. Municipalities are written with bold. *

Acheleia Acheleia ( el, Αχέλεια) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located near to Paphos International Airport Paphos International Airport ( el, Διεθνής Αερολιμένας Πάφου; tr, Baf Uluslararası Havalimanı) ...

Agia Marinouda Agia Marinouda ( gr, Αγία Μαρινούδα) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 7 km east of Paphos Paphos ( el, Πάφος ; tr, Baf) is a coastal city in southwest Cyprus and the capital of Paphos District. In ...

Agia Varvara Agia Varvara ( el, Αγία Βαρβάρα, meaning Saint Barbara) is a suburb in the western part of Athens, Greece. Geography Agia Varvara is situated east of the mountain Aigaleo (Greek: Αιγάλεω). It is west of central Athens. The mu ...

* Agios Dimitrianos * Agios Georgios * Agios Ioannis * Agios Isidoros * Agios Nikolaos *

Akoursos Akoursos ( gr, Ακουρσός) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 3 km south of Kathikas. Akoursos is located at 410 metres above sea level. It receives approximately 650 mm of rainfall annually. Naming The name of th ...

* Amargeti * Anadiou *

Anarita Anarita ( gr, Αναρίτα) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located northeast of Timi The Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction, or TIMI Study Group, is an Academic Research Organization (ARO) affiliated with Brigham and Wome ...

Androlykou Androlykou ( gr, Ανδρολύκου, tr, Gündoğdu) is a Turkish Cypriot village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 5 km southwest of Polis Chrysochous. It is currently mostly empty, but before invasion it had a population of 498.PRIO ...

Argaka Argaka ( gr, Αργάκα) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 7 km northeast of Polis Chrysochous. From a geological perspective, it is located upon the calcareous sandstones, the sands, and the marls of the Pleistocene period ...

Arminou Arminou ( gr, Αρμίνου) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 5 km north of Salamiou on the F617 road from Filousa to Mandria. The village is on the Dhiarizos River which is second in terms of flow river in Cyprus. The ...

Armou Armou ( el, (η) Άρμου) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located south-east of Mesogi. It has a panoramic view of Paphos. Armou is located 363m above sea level. The area has been inhabited since pre-Christian times, according t ...

Asprogia Asprogia ( gr, Ασπρογιά) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 3 km west of Pano Panagia Pano Panayia (Greek: Πάνω Παναγιά); also known as Panayia (Greek: Παναγιά), is a mountainous village in Cypr ...

Axylou Axylou ( gr, Αξύλου, tr, Aksulu) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 12 north of Acheleia Acheleia ( el, Αχέλεια) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located near to Paphos International Airport P ...

Ayia Marina Chrysochous Ayia Marina ( gr, Άγια Μαρίνα) is a village located in the Paphos District of Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian ...

Ayia Marina Kelokedharon Ayia Marina Kelokedharon ( gr, Αγία Μαρίνα Κελοκεδάρων) is a village located in the Paphos District of Cyprus, east of Paphos near the town of Kelokedhara Kelokedara ( el, Κελοκέδαρα) is a village in the Paphos Di ...

Chloraka Chloraka ( gr, Χλώρακα) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, north of Paphos. The town is host to Akritas Chlorakas, a Cypriot First Division football team. Notably, Akritas Cholorakas has beaten Omonoia AC on their debut home ga ...

Choletria Choletria ( gr, Χολέτρια) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 10 km north of Kouklia. References Communities in Paphos District {{cyprus-geo-stub ...

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Choulou Choulou (Greek: Χούλου, Turkish: Hulu) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located west of Agios Fotios ''Agios'' ( el, Άγιος), plural ''Agioi'' (), transcribes masculine gender Greek words meaning 'sacred' or ' saint' ...

Chrysochou Chrysochou ( el, Χρυσοχού, tr, Hirsofu) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 3 km south of Polis Chrysochous Polis (or Polis Chrysochous; el, Πόλη Χρυσοχούς or Πόλις Χρυσοχούς, tr, Poli ...

Dhrousha Dhrousha ( gr, Δρούσια) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 10 km south of Polis Chrysochous. It's located at 640 m above sea level. Drousia or Drouseia or Droushia, one of the smallest villages in the mountainous a ...

Drymou Drymou ( gr, Δρύμου) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 3 km west of Fyti, with a population of about 100 people at an altitude of . It is between the Troodos mountains Troodos (sometimes spelled Troödos; el, ...

* Eledio *

Empa The Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa, German acronym for ''Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt'') is an interdisciplinary Swiss research institute for applied materials sciences and tech ...

Episkopi Episkopi ( el, Επισκοπή), or Latinised forms Episcopia or Piscopia, may refer to the following places: ;Cyprus: * Episkopi Bay, on the southeast coast * Episkopi, Limassol, a village on Episkopi Bay * Episkopi Cantonment, a British military ...

* Evretou * Faleia *

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* Fasoula * Foinikas *

Fyti Fyti ( el, Φύτη or ) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus. It is situated on a plateau 25 km north-east of Paphos and 20 km south-east of Polis. There are several small villages within a 3 km radius of Fyti, including ...

* Galataria *

Geroskipou Geroskipou ( el, Γεροσκήπου; tr, Yeroşibu) is a coastal village in Cyprus, east of Paphos. Its current population is approximately 7,000 and it is the second largest municipality in the Paphos District. Yeroskipou, with its remarkable ...

* Gialia *

Giolou Giolou ( gr, Γιόλου) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 20 km North of Paphos and 15 km South of Polis Chrysochous. At an altitude of about 300 meters from the sea, the settlement of Giolou is connected to the southwest ...

Goudi Goudi (, since 2006; formerly Γουδί ) is a residential neighbourhood of Athens, Greece, on the eastern part of town and on the foothills of Mount Hymettus. History The name of the area derives from the 19th century Goudi (Γουδή) famil ...

Inia ''Inia'' is a genus of river dolphins from South America containing one to four species. Taxonomy The genus was described by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1834 when ''Delphinus geoffrensis'', described by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1817, was ...

* Istinjon * Kallepia * Kannaviou * Karamoullides *

Kathikas Kathikas (Greek: Κάθηκας) is one of the Laona villages in the Paphos District of Cyprus. It is situated on a plateau 23 kilometers north of Paphos. It has an altitude of 655m and a population of 333. It is well known for its grape production, ...

* Kato Akourdhalia *

Kato Arodes Kato Arodes (Greek: Κάτω Αρόδες) is a village in the North West of Cyprus close to the Akamas peninsula. It is about 23 km from the town of Paphos. In 1975 (a year after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus The Turkish invas ...

* Kedares * Kelokedara * Kidasi * Kilinia * Kinousa *

Kissonerga Kissonerga is a village in South West Cyprus, about 8 km north of Paphos, in a region notable for the cultivation of banana plantations, an area known as the Ktima Lowlands. In 1980 the population of the village was 700 people.Robertson, Ian ...

Koili Koili ( el, Κοίλη) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located northwest of Tsada. Koili has an altitude of 593 m above sea level. It receives 620 mm of rainfall annually. Built at an altitude of 580 meters in a landscape d ...

* Konia *

Kouklia Kouklia ( el, Κούκλια, tr, Kukla) is a village in the Paphos District, about east from the city of Paphos on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The village is built in the area of "Palaepaphos" ( el, Παλαίπαφος) (Old Paphos), ...

* Kourtaka *

Kritou Marottou Kritou Marottou ( gr, Κρήτου Μαρόττου) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 2 km east of Fyti Fyti ( el, Φύτη or ) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus. It is situated on a plateau 25 km north-e ...

* Kritou Terra * Lapithiou * Lasa *

Lemona Lemoa ( es, Lemona) is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. Sports in Lemoa * SD Lemona (Football) in ''Segunda División B Segunda División B ( en, Second ...

* Lempa * Letymvou *

Livadi Livadi or Leivadi ( el, Λ ��βάδι) is a village and a former municipality in the Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Elassona, of which it is a municipal unit. Befor ...

* Loukrounou *

Lysos Lysos ( gr, Λυσός) is a village in Cyprus, about 36 kilometres from Paphos. The population was 160 in 2001. Being the largest in area of the villages of Cyprus, Lysos covers an area of approximately 10,000 acres in the province of Paphos. Bui ...

* Makounta *

Mamonia Mamonia ( gr, Μαμώνια) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 8 km northeast of Nikokleia Nikokleia ( gr, Νικόκλεια) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 3 km north of Kouklia. Referenc ...

Mamountali Mamountali ( gr, Μαμούνταλη) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula ...

* Mandria * Marathounta * Maronas * Meladeia * Melandra *

Mesa Chorio Mesa Chorio ( gr, Μέσα Χωριό) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 1 km east of Mesogi. Topography A small settlement standing at an elevation of 315 meters on the outskirts of the city, it offers views of the re ...

* Mesana *

Mesogi Mesogi ( gr, Μεσόγη) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 5 km north of Paphos Paphos ( el, Πάφος ; tr, Baf) is a coastal city in southwest Cyprus and the capital of Paphos District. In classical antiquity, two l ...

Milia A milium (''plural'' milia), also called a milk spot or an oil seed, is a clog of the eccrine sweat gland. It is a keratin-filled cyst that can appear just under the epidermis or on the roof of the mouth.Freedberg, et al. (2003). ''Fitzpatrick' ...

* Miliou * Mousere *

Nata Nata could refer to: __NOTOC__ Places * Nata, Botswana, a village in Central District of Botswana * Nata, Cyprus, a small village near Paphos, Cyprus * Natá, Coclé, a town and corregimiento in Natá District, Coclé Province, Panama * Natá Dist ...

Nea Dimmata Nea Dimmata ( gr, Νέα Δήμματα) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located northeast of Polis Chrysochous Polis (or Polis Chrysochous; el, Πόλη Χρυσοχούς or Πόλις Χρυσοχούς, tr, Poli) is a ...

* Neo Chorio *

Nikokleia Nikokleia ( gr, Νικόκλεια) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 3 km north of Kouklia. References {{Paphos District Communities in Paphos District ...

* Pano Akourdaleia * Pano Archimandrita * Pano Arodes *

Pano Panagia Pano Panayia (Greek: Πάνω Παναγιά); also known as Panayia (Greek: Παναγιά), is a mountainous village in Cyprus, located at an altitude of 900 metres in the Paphos mountain range, on the outskirts of Paphos forest and 35 minutes fr ...

Pegeia Peyia (also spelt ''Pegeia''; el, Πέγεια) is a town in the Paphos District of Cyprus. Pegeia is situated mainly on the steep slopes of the coastal hills inland from Coral Bay, at the southern end of the Akamas Peninsula, and it lies 14&nb ...

Pelathousa Pelathousa ( gr, Πελαθούσα) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 5 km east of Polis Chrysochous Polis (or Polis Chrysochous; el, Πόλη Χρυσοχούς or Πόλις Χρυσοχούς, tr, Poli) is a town a ...

* Pentalia *

Peristerona Peristerona (Greek language, Greek: Περιστερώνα) is a large village about 32 kilometres west of the capital Nicosia, on the foothills of the Troodos Mountains, Troodos Mountain range in the Morphou basin. It is built on the west bank o ...

* Philousa Kelokedharon * Philousa Khrysokhous * Pitargou *

Polemi Polemi ( gr, Πολέμι) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus. The village is located within the rolling landscape of the Paphos hills at an altitude of above sea level. It receives an average annual rainfall of about 637 millimeters. ...

Polis, Cyprus Polis (or Polis Chrysochous; el, Πόλη Χρυσοχούς or Πόλις Χρυσοχούς, tr, Poli) is a town at the north-west end of the island of Cyprus, at the centre of Chrysochous Bay, and on the edge of the Akamas peninsula nature ...

Pomos Pomos ( gr, Πωμός) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 17 km northeast of Polis Chrysochous Polis (or Polis Chrysochous; el, Πόλη Χρυσοχούς or Πόλις Χρυσοχούς, tr, Poli) is a town at the n ...

* Praitori * Prastio * Psathi *

Salamiou Salamiou ( gr, Σαλαμιού) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in t ...

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* Simou *

Skoulli Skoulli ( gr, Σκούλλι) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 7 km south of Polis Chrysochous Polis (or Polis Chrysochous; el, Πόλη Χρυσοχούς or Πόλις Χρυσοχούς, tr, Poli) is a town at the ...

* Souskiou * Statos–Agios Fotios *

Stavrokonnou Stavrokonnou ( gr, Σταυροκόννου) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 12 km north of Kouklia Kouklia ( el, Κούκλια, tr, Kukla) is a village in the Paphos District, about east from the city of Paphos o ...

Steni Steni may refer to: Places * Steni, Paphos, village in the Paphos District of Cyprus * Steni Dirfyos, village on Euboea island, Greece * Steni Vala, village on the Greek island of Alonnisos People * Antonella Steni (1926 –2016), Italian ac ...

Stroumpi Stroumpi or Stroumbi ( gr, Στρουμπί ''Stroumpí'') is a small village in central Paphos District, Cyprus, and halfway between Paphos and Polis. The name of the village is said to derive from its founder, a man called "Stroumpos", or the shap ...

* Tala *

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* Theletra * Thrinia *

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Trachypedoula Trachypedoula ( gr, Τραχυπέδουλα) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Pe ...

Tremithousa Tremithousa ( gr, Τρεμιθούσα Πάφου) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 7 km north of Paphos. Tremithousa is located 294 m above sea level. Tremithousa is located near Mesa Chorio and Mesogi Village. Tremithous ...

Trimithousa Tremithousa Chrysochous ( el, Τρεμιθούσα Χρυσοχούς; tr, Uzunmeşe or Tremitusa) is an abandoned village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 6 km southwest of Lysos and about 11 kilometers southeast of Polis Chrysochous ...

Tsada Tsada (earlier (before 1985) written Tsadha) is a relatively big village 8 km North of Paphos city center. Although the proximity between them, the 612 m elevation difference gives to the Tsada area a totally different identity. It re ...

Vretsia Vretsia ( gr, Βρέτσια, tr, Vretça) is an abandoned Turkish Cypriot village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located east of Koilineia. After the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Turkish-Cypriot natives of the village abandoned their p ...

* Zacharia

References

Districts of Cyprus {{Cyprus-geo-stub